Monday, May 18, 2009

Twitter, trends and the hump of irrelevance

Too funny. A graphic explanation of how trends often work, on Twitter and otherwise.

Twitter trending topics by Meg Pickard
From Meg Pickard's Flickr stream.

May 18, 2009 4:15:00 PM | Twitter

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