Intrinsitivity

I have been addicted to Twitter since last weekend, having found several applications that enhance Twitter’s core functionality and add value to it, like TweetDeck. One column of data in TweetDeck is filled with the latest trends on Twitter as provided by both Twitter’s own API and Twitscoop.com. This is a great feature of TweetDeck, since it puts Twitter users on the pulse of the Twitter community and, by extension, the whole wide wired world.

One problem I quickly found, however, is that I am sometimes not aware of what each trendy term means. For example, as of now, a trendy term is #lyt. I have no idea what this means other than it probably being an acronym for something.

To ease the path to enlightenment, I wrote a jQuery script that pulls trends from Twitter in JSON format and links each trendy term to four sources, Twitter’s own search feature, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, and a Google definition search. I call it 10 Twitter Trends.