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, citing several understandable rationales, including being downright oblivious to what Trending Topics actually are and how to use them.Buried within the Twitter help and support pages, I dug up this official definition:

"Twitter's Trending Topics algorithm identifies topics that are immediately pop [...]

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What’s Trending, the CBSNews.com web show that launched earlier this year to explore the hottest online trends, has an exciting new announcement—they’ve partnered with Klout, the standard for measuring online influence, to invite top influencers in the fields of Tech, Media/Entertainment and Social Media to be a part of the show’s live audience.  I had the opportunity to talk to host Shira Lazar, as well as a representative from Klout, to find out more.


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Running out of things to talk about? Facebook is starting to roll out a feature that will show you when more than one of your friends is discussing the same topic. While Google's Circles make it easy to define people in the ways that you see them, this move from Facebook is more of an automated curation tool that should be based off of its search algorithm.As spotted by Tipdesk, you can see here that Facebook is placing similar topics into a single, informational post that is generated by the si [...]

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