Is this abridged list popular topics by the minute, day, or week, or some combination of the three?
This week, railway reform is one of the most popular topics on weibo, with over 10 million discussion threads.
Because people expect the most popular topics become Twitter Trends, the company comes off looking like the bad guy here.
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Based on what your friends are reading, Socialife is able to point out other popular topics and even suggests content.
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The perception of Twitter Trends, however, has been that the most popular topics are the ones that make it to the top.
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Search the website the old-fashioned way, read step-by-step guides, browse popular topics, or start with a category and drill down from there.
This new mention feature could be an interesting way for Facebook users to find out what the popular topics of discussion among friends are, by grouping the updates together.
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Security flaws in commercial software and hardware were popular topics at camp workshops, which included discussions on "Biometric Insecurity" and the construction of Windows NT Shell Code for Buffer Overflow Exploits.
The tabs along the top make it very easy to view your friends timeline, mentions, direct messages and even popular topics, and including a picture in your tweet is as simple as selecting the camera icon (you can also view tweeted pictures in the app).
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The debate has been one of the most popular topics in the technology industry for years, but it has emerged with increasing intensity in the past five years as governments, business leaders and universities around the world have tried to come up with strategic plans to boost their economies through high tech.
The algorithm could be of great interest to Twitter, which could charge a premium for ads linked to popular topics, but it also represents a new approach to statistical analysis that could, in theory, apply to any quantity that varies over time: the duration of a bus ride, ticket sales for films, maybe even stock prices.
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The latter has been of growing interest for Seacrest, who regularly posts many of his radio segments and conversation topics on his popular website.
Weibo have become popular platforms for sharing opinions and information about controversial topics, even as Google has sat on the sidelines.
We had a good laugh about how our two companies are doing the same thing in seeking the cooperation of popular bloggers to become contributors on our sites around topics that matter to our audiences.
He is popular for his hard stance on crime and hooliganism acutely sensitive topics in France since an outburst of rioting in late 2005.
Douban is sort of a Chinese MySpace, popular with special interest groups and communities, and for networking around specific topics and has over 100 million users.
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His popular website, which thrives on real-time message boards and contributions by users on a variety of topics, received record traffic -- as well as pointed criticism -- for its treatment of the Boston Marathon bomber case.
Other popular petitions have addressed immigration reform, same-sex marriage, campaign finance systems, foreclosure, and many more topics Americans care deeply about.
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Liking "Kathy Griffin, " "Juicy Couture, " or the musical "Wicked" were found to be strong indicators that a man was gay, while liking sports-related topics, "Bruce Lee" and "Being Confused After Waking Up From Naps" were more popular with straight men, according to the the study.
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