Of the many features Twitter employs, the Trending Topics section seems to be one of its more mystifying elements. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many Twitter users don’t even use Trending Topics ...

Where would you start? Brian Feldman began and ended in the same place: the sidebar on the right-hand side of Twitter.com, which keeps a running list of trending topics in fields from sports to ...

The list of "trending topics" on the right side of Twitter's home page is a coveted spot because millions of people see it. It often reflects what's hot in the news, from the death of Steve Jobs ...

“Trending topics” are bullshit ... F.B. Purity is also available for Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Opera. On Twitter, the Hide Twitter Guff Chrome extension removes promoted tweets, ads, Who ...

And here's something else about black people and Twitter: We love to start trends — trending topics, that is. Twitter defines trending topics as the "new or newsworthy topics that are occupying ...

Looking at just one week in Trends exposes the grave problems that remain with this feature, despite the platform’s many attempts to fix it. When Twitter introduced a new feature called Trends ...

As a holiday treat, Bluesky is finally adding trending topics to its site and app, although they're currently in beta. The feature is a Twitter (now X) classic and has been on Threads for about ...

Trending Topics is one of the features that made Twitter so useful for breaking news, finding community, and talking about things in real-time — like TV shows and sporting events. In a post ...

Some Twitter “trends” of late. Courtesy of Mira Fox ... Usually, trends number in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of tweets on a topic. There was no big conversation about Yiddishkeit ...

In the US, #TrumpIsDead even overtook the evening's World Series baseball action. Trending topics on Twitter come from a combination of the sheer number of tweets and the work of an algorithm ...