How does Twitter select trending topics?
6th August 2012
My answer to How does Twitter select trending topics? on Quora
They use stream processing algorithms—they mention trending topics calculation in their technical blog entry about Storm, their open source stream processing software: http://engineering.twitter.com/2...
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