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Looking at Twitter’s Historical Trend Data

I think trends are one of the most interesting by-products of the Twitter revolution. It is so interesting to capture the collective minds of the world and collapse them down to ten terms. @karmadude and I have begun experimenting with Twitter’s historical trend data using their search API. We have a lot of interesting ideas in the works, but a quick glance at the aggregate historical trend data shows some fairly consistent themes on Twitter.

The data set used to generated the graphs below fell within the following date range:

11/19/2008 19:07 through 6/19/2009 22:02

This was the all of the trend data available at the time through Twitter’s API. We are currently working to gather the incremental data and hope to have some other interesting information and visualizations to share very soon.

If your interested in following the project going forward, we’ll be posting more information on our blogs (here and karmadude.com), and of course we’ll update twitter (me, Liji).