RIP Jackie Chan Trending Topic Is A Lie

Mar 302011
 

Sometimes social networks like Twitter can give you that morning adrenalin boost for free. This morning I looked up trending topics and found out that RIP Jackie Chan is trending, first thought OMG No!!! Why? How? What Happen?

Immediately I opened my Google Reader, Google News, Newszela to see what happened to one of my favorite actors, and my research found 0 results. I went back to that Twitter trending topic “RIP Jackie Chan” and by reading some 10-20 last tweets, lots of people said “it’s a lie” now that was a huge relive.

As it looks like, one of the top twitter accounts like Stewie_Griffin tweeted “Jackie Chan did not die. RIP means: Really Inspiring #Person” and tweets like that lead to lots of  retweets, and such words land on top trending topics.

You know, now that I look at tweets regarding Rip Jackie Chan, it’s kind of funny how many people think that he is really dead.

Lesson learned, not everything you see as trending topic is true. Lately most trending topics on Twitter are just garbage and not useful at all, in my opinion. I am glad that nothing happened to Jackie Chan and that he is alive with good health.

Twitter Shut Down Trending Topics Due To World Cup

Jun 132010
 

Now and then I login to Twitter.com and did the same thing today. Guess what? Trending Topics on Twitter are gone, and probably due to World Cup.

Lately Twitter had issues with Capacity , you know the #Fail Whale? Not just that, many users complained about their clients not updating because API was so overwhelmed that it was impossible to Tweet or even refresh the latest tweets.
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THANK YOU Twitter for Removing Justin Bieber Trending Topic

May 142010
 

The other day I wrote how Twitter 2010 You Suck due to Trending Topics , and it’s true! But as of today Twitter listened to  many others and me  who complained about fixed trending topics.

 

BYE BYE JUSTIN BIEBER!!!!

Not that I have something against that kid but due to trending topics I hate it with passion.

Here is what they said:

“The new algorithm identifies topics that are immediately popular, rather than topics that have been popular for a while or on a daily basis, to help people discover the ‘most breaking’ breaking news from across the world. (We had previously built in this ‘emergent’ algorithm for all local trends, described below.) We think that trending topics which capture the hottest emerging trends and topics of discussion on Twitter are the most interesting.”

 

THANK YOU @BIZ THANK YOU @EV and THANK YOU TWITTER TEAM…

Google News Now With Trending Topics

Feb 152010
 

Just checked Google News and as it appears they are displaying Trending Topics (Top Stories)

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Personally I think they should make button where you can expend it or collapse it. Looks like Google is trying hard to incorporate Twitter features, first Google Wave than Google Buzz and now “Top Stories” vs Trending Topics on Twitter.

Thoughts? You like it? No? Yes?

UPDATE: As it looks like, not everyone can see this! According to these buzz comments. But according to one Google Employee as it appears it is one of the  “Google Experiments” .

At Google, we run anywhere from 50 to 200 experiments at any given time on our websites all over the world. Right now, we are running a small test of a new Google News homepage design. More information about how Google runs experiments can be found at

Thanks to TechCrunch for linking back to this story especially Eric Schonfeld for giving us credit.