Is Snowden not Being Allowed to Trend on Twitter?(pastebin.com)

Is Snowden not Being Allowed to Trend on Twitter?

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25 コメント

skwirl13 年前

In my top 10, I have #Snowden, Cuba, Russia, Hong Kong, and Moscow. So for me Snowden is dominating as he currently has half of the trends. People are a little too quick to jump on the conspiracy theory bandwagon.

soneca13 年前

Right. Good anedocte about how many HNers upvote without even thinking.

brador13 年前

It's trivial to block at country level.

pygy_13 年前

Strangely, it doesn't appear in the US trend list, nor in the worldwide one.

[deleted]13 年前

dsirijus13 年前

To be fair to the OP, he asked a question whether it is trending or not.

bpatrianakos13 年前

No, the question is "Is Snowden not being allowed to trend on Twitter"? Leading question. Also, within the post itself "Why is Snowden not trending" (grammar corrected by me) and the title "Proof Snowden should be trending" in all caps no less.

It's pretty clear the idea is to imply there's a conspiracy. Everything is a conspiracy.

[deleted]13 年前

Kiro13 年前

"PROOF SNOWDEN SHOULD BE TRENDING"

Peroni13 年前

Possibly for the same reason Wikileaks weren't trending when they were all over the media - http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/12/09/twitter-trends-...

Ricapar13 年前

#snowden is trending for me:

http://i.imgur.com/ISYwKLD.png

Sites like Facebook and Twitter don't treat all users alike when it shows them what is trending.

olouv13 年前

Confirmed, I had to drop the default "tailored trends" setting & switch back to United States trends to get back #snowden in the list.

loceng13 年前

Bubbles are a bad thing - not sure if they are just a bad thing sometimes, or all of the time.

truetaurus13 年前

Trending for me as well in Berlin

hillaryppca13 年前

NKCSS13 年前

Same here in .nl

dutchbrit13 年前

Love that "Twinkies" is also trending haha.

KA23A13 年前

Also, Twitter trends aren't based on volume. It's more about change in volume.

chaz13 年前

Correct. Twitter changed their algorithm to this in 2010 to solve the Justin Bieber problem.

http://mashable.com/2010/05/14/twitter-improves-trending-top...

simonw13 年前

I think that's exactly what's going on here. Snowden has been a popular topic on Twitter for days now, so it's likely that those other terms have had bigger volume changes recently.

rajahafify13 年前

Same topic will not trend after it has been trending for a while. Or else, #bieber will trend forever. After a while it might trend again.

danielharan13 年前

Now trending for me in Montreal, so I changed locations. New York, Providence, New Haven and Phoenix. Also trending for US as a whole.

The algo for Twitter isn't straightforward, and may even have human checks to prevent gaming.

devilsenigma13 年前

I get 'Edward Snowden' as a tailored trend in the UAE as well

tehwebguy13 年前

Another example of this is how Justin Bieber isn't constantly trending, but if he uses a new hashtag that tag will trend.

332713 年前

If so then this is the first censorship of its kind in the US in the modern era (as far as I remember).