see here: http://gawker.com/5539716/why-justin-bieber-disappeared-from-twitters-trending-topics
also there seems to be a rule that a username cannot be trending (hence the #cablegate hashtag) /paul On 5 Dec 2010, at 12:54 PM, Leigh Blackall wrote: > At more than 120 tweets a minute, and having sustained this rate for more > than 4 days now, I'd like to know why #WIkileaks has not yet been listed by > Twitter as "trending". # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org