Twitter Trending Prediction Algorithm: Possibly Of Most Use To Journalists

This is an interesting little development out of the MIT labs: Predicting what topics will trend on Twitter A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance and offers a new technique for analyzing data that fluctuate over time. I won't even pretend to follow the math they're talking about, but the effect is this: Associate Professor Devavrat Shah and his student Stanislav Nikolov will present a new algorithm that can, with 95 percent accuracy, predict which topics will ...