Probably one of the most tweeted questions on Twitter is « Why is this trending? » which some people ask whenever they see a random or weird thing starts trending
Probably one of the most tweeted questions on Twitter is “Why is this trending?” which some people ask whenever they see a random or weird thing starts trending. While you will see tweets related to this topic or hashtag, it doesn’t really offer a quick explanation and can even lead you down a rabbit hole of tweets. trying to figure out why it trended in the first place. Now Twitter will be adding pinned tweets and even an explanation for the trending topic, making it easier to become in the know and maybe join in on the topic. If you head to Twitter’s trending topics now, you’ll see some of those trends already have a tweet pinned to it so you can get an explanation right away. They’re using a combination of algorithms and their curation team to determine if the tweet is “very reflective of the trend” and also popular or has been retweeted several times already.
