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Tuesday, June 09, 2009
The silliness of Twitter
While testing Android Twitter I noticed:
Twitter shows the most used topics (or keywords) among all Twitter feeds, which of course people have taken advantage of to force specific topics to “win”.
Currently it’s #squarespace and #crapsuperpowers. The other top keywords make sense though.
There’s even an API request to ask about what topics are the hottest right now, meaning you can automate the further domination of those keywords, or try to make something else dominate.
Can use of Twitter get more silly and pointless than this?
Currently, investors are crazy about funding companies that can even spell to Twitter, and most of those companies seem to be as financially unsound (read: without any revenue streams at all) as Twitter itself, yet unfortunately that irrational handing out seems concentrated to Silicon Valley.
