Why Isn’t Justin Bieber Trending On Twitter?
Major Bummer Twitter.
Twitter has decided to “tweak” it’s algorithm to make Trending Topics more relevant. The social networking company wrote on it’s official page:
We have tweaked our worldwide trending topic algorithm to better capture the most emergent trends being talked about on Twitter *right now*
And not only are Justin Bieber’s fans upset he isn’t trending on the site anymore, but so is Justin himself! He Tweeted:
@twitter i heard you changed your system to stop my fans from making trending topics?? Really?? Where is the love??
How do you feel about this?
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WHATS UP WITH THAT!!!!!!AWE COMON!!!!!!WHATS WRONG WIHT THESE STUPID TWITTER PPL FOR DOING THT!!!!!!!!:(
If you understand math, it makes perfect sense.
Basically, the old way of doing the TTs were that whoever was mentioned the most that ENTIRE DAY would be the #1 trending topic. 2nd most = 2nd TT, and so on.
But now, it’s whoever/whatever is being mentioned the most RIGHT NOW. As in, like the past 10-20 minutes only.
So if I mentioned something, say the show Lost, 30 minutes ago, it won’t be trending.
This is why Bieber doesn’t trend as much. His fans don’t tweet about him 24/7. And yes, he does still trend. For example, he was trending earlier this morning.
It’s okay. After all, the LoC (Library of Congress) is still archiving all the public tweets. So the Bieber love will come through even 100 years from now when people will no longer know who he is.
The other biggest difference is the spam filter is much better now.
Before, it would only block something if you put 3 or more trending topics in the same tweet.
So say Lost, Kate, & Sawyer are all trending. If you tweet “Lost was great, Kate rocks!” it would count toward the trending topics. But if you tweet “Lost was great, Kate & Sawyer rock.” It would NOT count.
It’s still the same way, but now it goes even deeper.
Before the change, if you tweeted something that had nothing to do with Justin Bieber & then add his name to the end, say you tweeted, “Desperate Housewives rocks! Justin Bieber.” It WOULD count in the trending topics toward JB, even though the tweet really had nothing to do with him! But NOW? If you do that (tweet about something that has NOTHING to do with a person/topic & then randomly add them to the end), it does NOT COUNT toward the TTs.
That’s my understanding of the matter
I like the new Twitter system!
No more annoying Bieber, yes!