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Top 10 Most Popular Topics on Twitter This Week

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January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0

What did people buzz about the most this week? Who was the singer that people tweeted the most about? What issue caught the world’s collective attention?Social media is not only a great medium for conversation, but it’s also an effective way to discover and analyze the popular topics of the day. By aggregating and picking apart the millions of tweets, status updates, and posts generated on the web every day, it’s possible to figure out what people care about in real-time.Starting this week, we will be publishing the top ten trending topics of the last seven days, based …   Read More

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