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How does Twitter select trending topics?

6th August 2012

My answer to How does Twitter select trending topics? on Quora

They use stream processing algorithms—they mention trending topics calculation in their technical blog entry about Storm, their open source stream processing software: http://engineering.twitter.com/2...

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