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4% -- false positive rate for Twitter trending topics (MIT research) (2013)
MIT researchers described a classifier that predicted trending topics on Twitter with a 4% false-positive rate.
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30
Methodology
45
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95
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MIT (Devavrat Shah and Stanislav Nikolov)
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https://xburst.app/blog/trending-topics-on-twitter-today ↗
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Find Trending Topics on Twitter Today: A Growth Guide
Find Trending Topics on Twitter Today: A Growth Guide
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You open X for five minutes to “check what's trending,” see a hashtag exploding, watch a …
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MIT (Devavrat Shah and Stanislav Nikolov)
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MIT classifier based on tweet volume rate of change
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Twitter trending topics (MIT research): 4% false positive rate. Source: MIT (Devavrat Shah and Stanislav Nikolov) (2013). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/mit-trend-prediction-false-positive-rate
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