Trendsmap—Real-time Local Twitter Trends
Twitter can be an excellent source for spotting the latest trends. If you’re a regular Twitter user, you know about Twitter Trending Topics and it does become more difficulty to spot trends if they are not displayed on the Twitter homepage. There exists a problem that it does not drill down to what Twitter users near you care about.
Nowadays, Trendsmap, a Google Maps and Twitter mashup, appears and solves both of these problems. As is said on their official website, Trendsmap is a real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world. There you can see what the global, collective mass of humanity are discussing right now.
Let us learn something more about Trendsmap:
When are the topics on the map from?
Trendsmap is continuously tracking twitter trends, right down to the second. New trends should appear within minutes, and they may gradually increase or decrease in prominence as they become more or less popular. Trendsmap only shows topic trends for up to one week, less if the trend is weaker. If you watch the topics on the map you will often see them adjusting real-time.
How do You use Trendsmap?
You start with a view of your region where you can see the trending topics. You can scroll the maps by dragging to another area, or zoom in or out using the plus/minus icons. When you see something that looks interesting click on that topic for more information such as graphs of the volume of tweets locally vs. worldwide, what the topic is most likely about, images, links, and most recent tweets. You can also see where else this topic popular by clicking on the topic within the detail display, or what else are people tweeting about at this location by clicking on the location name.
How many tweets/locations/topics are you tracking?
We are currently processing around 5 million tweets per day. We have over 500 cities from around the world that have their own page on the site, and the number of topics changes depending on what people are tweeting about.
Of course, there are also some aspects that it doesn’t do very well though, is serve smaller towns. This wasn’t a big deal killer for me since I’m based in San Francisco, but if you want to use it for somewhere that’s outside a major city, you’re out of luck. This may simply be a limitation of how deep the data set is, but it keeps you from seeing trends starting up in smaller towns, which can be more interesting than in major cities.
If you are interested it, just play around with it and you’ll see why it’s one of the best Twitter mashups we’ve ever come across.
March 3rd, 2011 at 12:25 pm
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