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by Derek Kessler Tue, 22 Sep 2009 3:57 pm EDT

Palm Trend Tracker

Ever notice how some things spread across Twitter like wildfire and others slowly boil to the top? Apparently, so has Palm, and to research the trend they partnered up with Federated Media to build Trend Tracker. With Trend Tracker you can actually get a heads up on rising trends on Twitter, which you can then graph and compare. Trend Tracker even shows a real time feed of relevant tweets to the trends you’re comparing. Rising Twitter trends aren’t the only thing that Trend Tracker... tracks - you can also get a glimpse at the most popular links on Twitter and check out how trends have performed over history. All-in-all it’s an interesting glimpse into the mass discussions on Twitter, but the actual usefulness is less than debatable.

We should note that Palm's Trend Tracker should not be confused with Conan O'Brien's hilarious Twitter Tracker.

[via: PreThinking]

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12 Comments

Posted by drizek on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 4:39 pm EDT

Good thing it is in flash...

This won't work on the Pre, how stupid is that?

Posted by Derek Kessler on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 4:43 pm EDT

This would be very difficult to make work on a Pre.

Posted by drizek on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 7:16 pm EDT

If they had written it as an app it would be a great tech demo.

Posted by Colonel Kernel on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 4:45 pm EDT

Now if only Twitter wasn't stupid to begin with.

Posted by thegov on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 4:56 pm EDT

TWITTER TRACKER TWITTER TRACKER TWITTER TRACKER!!!!!!

Posted by Derek Kessler on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 5:14 pm EDT

Are you kidding me? It's like Miley is my BFF!

Posted by dellibedaboss on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 4:57 pm EDT

Yea, we bout about a good month before Flash comes to the Pre... countdown....

Posted by Derek Kessler on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 5:46 pm EDT

A good month before flash is released from Adobe to manufacturers. When it actually hits webOS won't likely be until early next year.

Posted by EdgarPre on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 5:46 pm EDT

I don't really see the relevance of this for Palm? Would rather see them focused on more important things.

Posted by kurtd on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 6:16 pm EDT

That's almost as good as scoopler. http://www.scoopler.com/

Posted by LupeValenz on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 6:33 pm EDT

Wow....thats a pretty darn good Twitter page. I'm impressed.

Posted by Colonel Kernel on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 7:27 pm EDT

[duplicate post, sorry]