Twitter's Latest Experiment: 'Trends' That Explain Why Something is Trending

Twitter's Latest Experiment: 'Trends' That Explain Why Something is Trending

Twitter experiments with at least one new feature each and every day, and while most of these are simply that – experiments – some do move out of the beta process and become system-wide.

The platform’s latest venture, which it’s testing on its usual small subset of unsuspecting users, could actually be really useful: a Trends box that shows exactly why something is trending.

Normally, Twitter’s Trend box is a simple list of 10 items that is displayed on the left sidebar on Twitter.com. It

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