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Starting today TrendBowl will display trends found on the federated social network Mastodon, which is seen as the main Twitter competitor right now. While Twitter publishes trends on their API, which TrendBowl simply picks up, Mastodon requires more effort. Similarly to our treatment of Reddit, data is picked up in large amounts from Mastodon, and TrendBowl then runs trend detection algorithms of our own on this data in order to detect trending entities.
To see what’s trending on Mastodon, simply open up the TrendBowl website and choose the tab for Mastodon. Enjoy!