Test 1

Test

Top 100 Twitter Trends for March 2009

There are roughly 24x31 = 744 hours in March. Thus there are 744 opportunities to make an appearance on the Twitter Trends. A simple power law x**k with k = -0.68 does a good job of describing the distribution.

Rank	Trending Word	Measured	Power Law
1	iPhone	511	511
2	iPod	380	319
3	#sxsw	329	242
4	Apple	308	199
5	AIG	260	171
6	Watchmen	259	151
7	AT&T	202	136
8	Twilight	201	124
9	Goodnight	175	115
10	iTunes	170	107
11	Austin	165	100
12	Earth Hour	145	94
13	Texas	144	89
14	Spring	112	85
15	March Madness	111	81
16	BBC	110	78
17	NCAA	108	74
18	Jimmy Fallon	99	72
19	Ellen	92	69
20	Dollhouse	88	67
21	Diddy	87	64
22	Miami	83	62
23	Irish	79	61
24	Sydney	78	59
25	Vegas	75	57
26	American Idol	63	56
27	TGIF	62	54
28	Natasha Richardson	62	53
29	#mvp09	61	52
30	Easter	59	51
31	Starbucks	58	49
32	Comic Relief	57	48
33	SXSW	56	47
34	Social Media	52	46
35	#ncaa	52	46
36	IMAX	51	45
37	Spring Break	50	44
38	GDC	49	43
39	#musicmonday	47	42
40	Ireland	46	42
41	#bsg	44	41
42	Michael Jackson	44	40
43	#mix09	43	40
44	#drupalcon	43	39
45	Aliens	43	38
46	New York	42	38
47	#iphone	41	37
48	Jon Stewart	41	37
49	#phish	41	36
50	#watchmen	40	36
51	Daylight Savings	40	35
52	Melbourne	39	35
53	UConn	38	34
54	#iPhone	38	34
55	Spotify	37	33
56	DST	37	33
57	Duke	37	33
58	Kindle	37	32
59	My DBI	35	32
60	Paris	35	32
61	Celebrity Apprentice	34	31
62	Ipod	34	31
63	#skittles	34	31
64	IE8	34	30
65	Jim Cramer	32	30
66	Fargo	32	30
67	#earthhour	32	29
68	Green	32	29
69	Jesus	32	29
70	Florida	31	28
71	Heroes	31	28
72	Guinness	31	28
73	G20	31	28
74	SNL	30	27
75	Atlanta	30	27
76	Skype	30	27
77	Liverpool	29	27
78	BSG	29	26
79	#nascar	29	26
80	#sesny	29	26
81	Family Guy	29	26
82	Lord	28	26
83	Snow	28	25
84	#pycon	28	25
85	#SxSW	28	25
86	Wild Things Are	28	25
87	Saw Watchmen	27	25
88	Anoop	27	24
89	#socialmedia	27	24
90	#24	26	24
91	Resident Evil 5	26	24
92	iPhone OS 3	26	24
93	Conficker	25	23
94	Syracuse	25	23
95	Adam Lambert	25	23
96	UNC	25	23
97	Player Snapshot	25	23
98	TweetDeck	24	23
99	Paul Harvey	24	22
100	RE5	24	22

Power law distribution

So, Twitter trends are, not suprisingly, power law distributions.

Thus I really should be plotting them using log log axis:

Pareto strikes again

Fortunately I do not have access to a Windows/IE box to day so I can postpone checking on the IE issues ...

Welcome to Mexico, land of manana.

So I worked on the bar graphs for Twitter trend ranking. I rank the trends two ways: 1) by "points" where the points are in range [20,0] with 20 for the top ranking trend and 0 if the trend is not reported, and 2) by simple appearances where any appearance on the charts causes the total to be incremented by one.

I found remarkably close agreement between Twitter trends (key words) ranked by the two methods and a Pareto distribution with k = 0.76.

IE Javascript problems

OK, as suspected there is a problem with my IE Javascript.

I shall be travelling for a few days. I will resolve the IE issues when I return. Till then you should use Firefox, which works in my Linux environment.

Here we go

RealTimeTrender.com is developing numerical and graphical trending tools. Our initial effort is to provide a graphical display of real time trend data from Twitter.

Data for December, 2008
Data for January, 2009
Data for February, 2009
Data for March, 2009
Data for April, 2009

You should see the Twitter Top 20 trends displayed. At the bottom of each display you should see a box labeled "Uncheck All." Click on this box then display one or more trends by clicking on the check boxes in the table above.

This is a "Work in Progress." You are seeing the first public presentation of this display system. It may or may not work for you now. Stay tuned though and offer us your suggestions as to how to improve the site and what information you would like to see.

The software involved is Python/Django on the server side and JQuery/Flot for the client. All development is done under Linux using Firefox.

We have not done testing for Internet Explorer yet so all bets are of for IE. We would appreciate hearing from IE users: please send us screenshots and other reports.

Please send me your feedback,

BobLQ

Contact: realtimetrender at gmail.com