Of the many features Twitter employs, the Trending Topics section seems to be one of its more mystifying elements. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many Twitter users don’t even use Trending Topics ...

A new study has discovered a vulnerability in Twitter’s trending algorithm that makes the platform susceptible to astroturfing attacks. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

Brian Feldman has long been fascinated by Twitter's efforts to contextualize trending topics with short descriptions. So he documented more than 450 from this year and put them in a public archive.

Want to see a visual history of the top 30 trending topics on Twitter? A new tool called Trend Tracker can show you what's hot right now, and what will be hot next.

Looking at just one week in Trends exposes the grave problems that remain with this feature, despite the platform’s many attempts to fix it. When Twitter introduced a new feature called Trends ...