As translated by Google:

Twendr offers a complete dashboard of the “trending topics” on Twitter throughout the world to follow what concerns twittos. Remember, these “most discussed topics” are the expressions or the most used hashtags on Twitter at a time T and grouped into a top 10.

Displayed in columns, Twendr compares the global trending topics and 111 locations: 31 countries (U.S., France, UAE, Nigeria, Japan …) and 79 cities (Montreal, London, Sao Paulo … ).

For each of these places, we find the top 10 “concerns”, refreshed every 5 minutes. Throughout history, the interface can also monitor the grading on the last hour.

To customize the dashboard, it is possible to display only certain places by checking or unchecking them in the options settings

Vive La France!

As we’ve seen during other major events and disasters, people turn to social media channels to share information, prayers and images. And today people have again turned to Twitter, YouTube and other social sites to share news out of Morocco. Marrakesh (or Marrakech) is a trending Twitter topic in Spain, France and the Netherlands, according to Twendr.

Awesome traffic results! I wish it had been a happier event.

TwendR takes the concept of the “trending topics” that are on the official page of Twitter, but with more advanced features.

see the Goggle translate version or read the real deal. Merci beaucoup!

Thankfully I had planed for this and it was trivial to to import and support the new locations. But still, OMG!! We now have 111 locations : the “World”, 31 Counties and 79 cities .

The United States now has 48 cities. Only 12 counties do not have any cities. The UK has 4 cites; Canada has 3 (Montreal and Vancouver join Toronto, so we can see Stanley Cup buzz : ) Japan (and Tokyo) are new, as are United Arab Emirates (UAE), Nigeria and South Africa.

poor hamster

TwendR complements this by providing a display device by columns Trending Topics world, displayed by country (twenty today)
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What is interesting is to follow the evolution of these Trending Topics in time and in real time and allows TwendR precisely monitor changes in these rankings
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Finally, TrendR tuner allows the columns by keeping only those that are important to us and choosing the display order of these columns
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The application is still in beta mode but it deserves to be more known, it is true that he lacks a little work of graphic order to make it a little more attractive.

Thanks for the feedback!

Twendr is a new website that gives a nice overview of all the trends on Twitter. It is a kind of dashboard that you can see 10 global trending topics, but also the 10 most popular subjects for each country. A total of 20 countries. The dashboard is configurable by clicking on the light. Then you can add or delete countries. Twendr was built by Canadian freelance developer Ian Irving.

Many Thanks

What are “trending topics” you ask? From Twitter :

From news stories to the latest buzz about movies or music, the trending topics reflect what new or newsworthy topics are occupying the most people’s attention on Twitter at any one time..

See Twitter’s document About Trending Topics for more.

Twitter reports (as of Dec 2010) on the “World”, 20 Counties and 21 Cities , but only shows you one place at a time.

Twendr will show you what’s happening in the World and across various Countries, or a Country and the Cities in that Country. For a particular place, you can also see how trending topics have changed or gotten more popular, by looking at that locations “Last Hour”.

I do some jquery to highlight where else a trending topic phrase is trending, or when, and opening the links lets you search for that phrase on Twitter.

Now 20 Countries is a lot of Countries – even if you have a big monitor! – but you can hide Counties your not focused on by using the “Visibility” light bulb button to hide or show locations. As well, you can Drag and Sort the order that locations are show in. The “Visibility” light bulb button will also let you “restore” the default order.

Twitter tries to refresh it’s trending topics every 5 minutes and I’m pouncing on it as soon as I can.

Twendr is a project of Connected Thinking – me – and is built on JQuery & Ruby on Rails. Of Coruse there is a Twiiter account for Twendr @Twendr for quick updates and related information, as well a a blog for more detailed posts and help at https://twendr.wordpress.com/.

Try it; tell your friends; let me know what you think; and Enjoy watching the trends flow.

This article also appears on False Positives

All this made possible by using the trends.api.twitter.com server. (And a back end cron  job invoking wget every minute to see want needs to be re polled off of the afore mentioned api end point. It’s hamsters all the way down!)

Coming soon-ish : a bigger boat and a re write to add that new jet engine….

It can now accommodate a long list of counties, or cities within a country (as in The United States).  If there are more than shown on your screen then it allow you to scroll to the right to see additional columns. In order to manage that long list (currently 20 counties plus the world), you can hide any column via the light bulb “visibility” button : , which opens the “Show / Hide Columns” dialog box:

Guess what that does! You can Hide a column by selecting a Name with the “Minus” button, or make it visible if it is already hidden then by selecting a Name with a “Plus” button. You can also make all hide columns visible at once by using the “Show all” button at the bottom. The light bulb “visibility” button with tell you how many hidden columns have been hidden on a page with a small red number (in this case 9) :

You can also Sort the columns on a page by grabbing the column and dragging it to a new position.  The original positions can be returned by using the “Restore Order” button in the “Show / Hide Columns” dialog box.

I’ve corrected at least one spelling error (thanks Boro and Lee), hopefully without introducing new ones.  Maybe

It’s now been tested on FireFox 3.6+, Chrome 9.0.597+ Safari 5+, and the IE 9 beta. I does work in IE8 (just not with the nice CSS3 round corners) and on a Apple iPad (with 2 finger scrolling).

All in all this gives me a nice and shinny front end and lends me to the next task of re-factoring the back-end with a bigger and more hungry hamster!

By all means give me your thoughts, feedback and support!!