What The Trend? explains why something trends on Twitter search

If this didn’t exist, then somebody would make it. I wonder how long until Twitter just goes ahead and makes something like this for themselves, instead of using another, unaffiliated site? Seems a useful extension of their real–time search product, to me.

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