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May 17, 2009

Twitter Trending analysis

I made this the other day:

Twitter trending topics

In case you’ve stumbled across it somewhere and made your way over here, you should know that this image was originally posted to Twitter with the tag #fauxiology.

While the experience above is based on observation of people using Twitter (including myself) over time, it’s also supposed to be tongue in cheek. There’s no supporting data and this is not intended to conform to rigorous scientific principals of research. It is, however, a pretty accurate hunch and a familiar pattern to many.

I’ve also written some other stuff about Twitter which you might want to look at.

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  4. Ian Aleksander Adams says:
    May 17, 2009 at 6:59 am

    This is fricking great. I’ve subscribed to your blog and I’m going to link back here and repost this (instead of to boing boing or something, since I’m sure they get enough hits.)

  5. Twitter Trending Analysis by Meg Pickard | Ian Aleksander Adams says:
    May 17, 2009 at 7:12 am

    [...] scarily accurate visual representation of a twitter trend is by web anthropologist Meg Pickard. According to her flickr, she’s “been studying and [...]

  6. Twitter’s Topics “Hump of Irrelevence” Graph :: Geeky Grrrl says:
    May 17, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    [...] I found this post on my good friend, James Poling’s, blog; however, the original post can be found here. [...]

  7. Cait says:
    May 18, 2009 at 9:41 am

    Ha. Nailed it, methinks.

  8. Where you allow your attention to go… « Intersecting Images says:
    May 20, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    [...] to Merlin Mann….. Seems perhaps related to this blog post which in turn refers to a post by Meg Pickardon a little fun nugget describing the “irrelevance hump” on a perhaps not so [...]

  9. 140Char » 140Char Links 05/22/2009 says:
    May 22, 2009 at 1:28 pm

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This is a personal site, created and curated continuously since early 2000 by Meg Pickard, a creative geek, passionate photographer, anthropologist and web experience /community /social media specialist, who works for The Guardian & lives in London, UK.
 
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