Most of you already know all about trending topics on Twitter. Whatever people seem to talk about the most gets on tending topic and goes viral. It’s a really good way to track what is going on especially when it’s news. But there needs to be a way to weed out some things to make trending topics more relevant, especially now that the homepage of twitter itself looks like a search engine and shows the trending topics. I was going through trending topics and I came across this tag #anoopdesai. Thought I would check it out to see what was going on and I couldn’t make a damn thing out. I had to actually google it and see what all the hype was about. Here is a screenshot,
You can see more result by going here and I can assure you most of them are all spam to get #anoopdesai on top of all trending topics.
The worst part is that it is showing on the homepage of twitter (sign out from twitter to see) as well. Imagine new user coming to twitter and using it as a search engine. Clicking on trending topic that are full of spam may not make them want to use it again or sign up for the service for that matter. Something needs to be done on how trending topic becomes trending. I am sure a lot of times topics that should be on trending topics are dominated by these spam overload.
What do you think?
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Hi, My name is Ritu. I am a member of SMA (Social Media Anonymous) ;-) & help bloggers and businesses utilize the social web. 
I was reminded of how digg.com was being manipulated and the effort they had to put in.
Obviously google.com has to keep at it.
Just looks like twitter is having the usual troubles, now to see how they handle it.
Does that mean we are going to soon see Twitter Optimization start as a new field