How Twitter's Trending Algorithm Picks Its Topics Sometimes a topic that seems hot, like Occupy Wall Street, doesn't appear on trending lists, leading some activists to accuse Twitter of censorship.

Of the many features Twitter employs, the Trending Topics section seems to be one of its more mystifying elements. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many Twitter users don’t even use Trending Topics ...

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Twitter users are calling ont he company to pause its 'trending topics' in the run up to the upcoming election. They're using the #UntrendOctober hashtag.

On Twitter, the Hide Twitter Guff Chrome extension removes promoted tweets, ads, Who to Follow, and Twitter Trends. (You can turn Who to Follow back on.) It’s also available for Firefox .

Step 2: Browse the Trending tab. Locate and tap on the Trending tab at the top of your screen, underneath the search bar. You’ll be shown a list of topics and hashtags currently trending on Twitter.

Brian Feldman has long been fascinated by Twitter's efforts to contextualize trending topics with short descriptions. So he documented more than 450 from this year and put them in a public archive.

Twitter defines trending topics as the "new or newsworthy topics that are occupying the most people's attention on Twitter at any one time." Adding a hashtag (#) to a tweet creates a themed ...