Facebook Tracks Trends With Lexicon Service

In the next hour, a post will be going up to the Facebook blog announcing a brand new service that tracks the words used in wall posts to determine what’s popular. This is similar to the Google Trends service which tracks all queries made by users on the popular search engine. The new service enables users to “query as many as five strings of a single word or two-word combinations.” Want to figure out how popular something is on Facebook? Now you can with the new lexicon feature.