My hacky Twitter robot got 10K followers behind my back

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12 pointsjbogp3 comments

It would be interesting to use the data to find out what makes a hashtag trending. I imagine that there are a few common themes which will pop up again and again. The question is whether the data used by this bot are usable for such an analysis. Any thoughts?

Oh Yes there are... mainly Justin Bieber, 5SOS and One direction. You want success on Twitter? You should definitely talk about that!

Also yes he could definitely do some text mining on the trending topics, that would be an interesting topic.

Well if you look at the most popular trends recorded :

http://whotrended.it/top-trends

the first by far is #tcot so apparently conservatives are doing well on Twitter.

For the analysis I think one year of data is probably a bit on the short side. But if I let it run for a decade (providing Twitter is still used by then), we'll definitely see a generational effect that could be interesting.

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