#trending

This week was again a very interesting week for me, I had long been meaning to explore how the Google Trends function worked and this week I got a chance to do just that. I have been an avid user since, it's helped me gain information for certain projects that I had undertaken and it has also helped me waste loads of time browsing through the most popular trends :)

 

 

We also looked at Twitter and it's trending topics function which I was already well aware of but it was nice to get some good insight on the topic.

 

We also looked at a very interesting article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185738/Wikipedia-LOCKS-editing-access-Stephen-Colbert-tells-followers-mess-Mitt-Romneys-VP-hopefuls-pages.html

Which was about how Wikipedia had to take the drastic step of locking Mitt Romney's page as there were so many edits occurring thanks to comedian Stephen Colbert announcing on his show for his fans to make as many edits as possible the reasoning behind this was because recently political bloggers noted the trend that the number of recent edits made to the pages of potential nominees could be used to gauge how likely it is that said candidate will be Romney's choice. This was fascinating to me, how someone could use recent Wikipedia editing trends to that extent really surprised and impressed me!