Twitter’s trending topics algorithm has been explored in an NPR article. The algorithm works by prioritizing popular topics that are recent over more generally talked-about subjects. Twitter’s ...

The list of "trending topics" on the right side of Twitter's home page is a coveted spot because millions of people see it. It often reflects what's hot in the news, from the death of Steve Jobs to ...

An article in an online publication accusing Facebook of suppressing the Women's March in its trending topics caused a little tempest on social media over the weekend. Facebook says it did not ...

An MIT team has developed an algorithm that can predict trending topics on Twitter an average of an hour and a half before they appear. Conventionally, a predictive program like this would be looking ...

Three days after Facebook said it would remove the human editors who curate the Trending topics section and replace them with a purely algorithmic system, the company trended a fake news story about ...

Twitter's home page features a regularly updated list of topics that are "trending," meaning that tweets about them have suddenly exploded in volume. A position on the list is highly coveted as a ...

The top link for Facebook's 1.7 billion users was a hoax, claiming that the World Trade Center was destroyed by bombs. Alfred Ng Senior Reporter / CNET News Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET ...

Facebook has detailed some changes with Trending Topics, the small feature that earned it a bunch of controversy earlier this year. Among the changes, says Facebook, is that from now on an algorithm ...

Facebook's trending stories, which were introduced to the website in 2014, have come under fire this week after a Gizmodo report claimed former 'news curators' at the company had manipulated results.