Trendsmap Plus & Twitter Login Changes

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We have been busy with a number of changes to Trendsmap.com, as well as planning into the future. For those that want the short version of the changes:

  • Addition of Trendsmap Plus, subscription version of Trendsmap with much, much more information.
  • You need to now sign in via Twitter to get some information, including live tweets and some trend metadata.
  • Requiring business & heavy users of Trendsmap to use Trendsmap Plus.

There have been three primary factors driving these changes:

  • Changes to the way in which we get data from Twitter (Twitter API v1 to v1.1)
  • Ensuring the sustainability of Trendsmap.com into the future
  • The desire to expand the functionality, and insights offered through Trendsmap

Trendsmap Plus

Trendsmap Plus

Screenshot from Trendsmap Plus

From our information page :

Trendsmap Plus gives you up to 5 times more detail than Trendsmap.com, with faster updates and an enhanced interface that enables you to dive much deeper into news events as they unfold.

Trendsmap Plus has a greater range of the most relevant images, videos (also including vines and vimeo), news articles and people for trending events as they spread across a city, country, region or the entire world.

You can also monitor what people are saying about brands or industries, and quickly identify emerging opportunities for your marketing activities.

There is a lot of development happening with Trendsmap Plus, and we have a number of additional features we are hoping to make available here in the near future, including the ability to review Trends from the previous 24 hours.

Please note that we are now requiring business, commercial, or heavy users of Trendsmap to use Trendsmap Plus instead of the public site, which is primarily for personal use. You can find out more about Trensdmap Plus here.

Twitter Sign In Changes

Due to the changes Twitter have made to the way some data is provided, we are no longer able to provide the list of live, related tweets without an authenticated Twitter user. Previously, live tweets were able to be delivered directly to your browser, without the requirement of authentication. However now, signing in via your Twitter account gives you the same level of detail, as you would have had prior to this change.

About Trendsmap

Trendsmap.com has been developed in, and is run from Melbourne, Australia, by a small independent business running lot of big servers in America. Trendsmap.com ingests over 100 million tweets every day, and turns them into Trends for the whole world, in over a dozen different languages. We hope that the above changes, and the continued support from many thousands of people that use the site every day, from every corner of the world, will allow us to continue to provide this unique service well into the future.

Country Pages – 100+ added

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Since we introduced our first country based ‘local’ pages, we have had numerous requests for other countries to be added.  Recently however we added many, many more specific country pages.  New countries added are from across the globe; Europe, Asia, Americas and beyond. We now have 107 more countries with local pages listed, bringing the total to 129.  You can see a full list of countries, and cities on our main local page.

Below is a sample screenshot from the new Turkey country page:

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We have some more exciting changes, just around the corner.  Please sign up for our product updates (see the footer on the home page) to be one of the first to know.

Do more in Trendsmap

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As many of you will have noticed over recent weeks, you can now sign in to Trendsmap via Twitter:

‘Why would I do that?’, you may ask. Here are a few new things you can do on Trendsmap if you sign in:

  • Find something interesting? Now you can quickly and easily retweet it.
  • Easily follow people that are trending, popular, or tweeting about a current trend in your region.
  • Send replies directly back to people that are discussing a particular trend.
  • Favourite tweets.

As well as being able to sign in using the button in the header of the page, you can also just follow/retweet etc, and you will be automatically taken through the sign in process, and your action completed.

There is more client functionality planned as part of an expanded product offering, please stay tuned for updates on that.  In the mean time though, as always, please let us know if you have any queries.

Trendsmap Widgets

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Now you can have the Trendsmap experience on your public-facing website or blog, allowing you and your visitors to see at a glance the trends in your area of interest.

Trendsmap Widget Sample

You can now sign up from our products page.  A test embeding of a widget for London, UK can be found here.   More embedding options, and other forms of widgets are also in the works, so stay tuned for updates.

Changes!?

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Change is afoot!

For those who have noticed (and those who haven’t), we are making some changes to the Trendsmap site at the moment. There are more features, better interface and more in the pipeline!  There has already been some minor layout changes and some new information on our variety of products.

Some of you may have also noticed recently, that you can now log in with Twitter to interact directly with the tweets and users shown in Trendsmap.

More details to come!

A Richer Trendsmap experience

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Since Trendsmap launched in 2009 we’ve gone from processing about four million tweets a day to dealing with more than 80 million tweets a day.  With this dramatic rise in the number of tweets, the extraction of videos, images and links has struggled to keep pace, that is until now.

Processing of these has now been upgraded to provide an even richer multi-media experience.  Trendsmap now has many more videos, images, and links related to trends on the main map page, topic pages, as well as on the individual local pages.

Along with this enhancement, we have been working hard to keep the spammers out of the system, and have dramatically reduced the amount of content leaking in from these sources. These improvements are an ongoing process though and if you have any suggestions, or see any spam on the site, then please let us know.

More Languages, More Locations, Better Coverage and More Data

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It’s been a while between updates but we have have spent that time teaching Trendsmap five more languages and launched more than 240 new location pages.

New languages

Trendsmap can now natively process Arabic, Turkish, Russian, Italian, and Swedish tweets in addition to the existing ones of English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, and Dutch.

This means we can now provide even more detailed and relevant trend information in areas where these languages are spoken.

We have already seen a big impact in the number of trending terms that Trendsmap displays  in the Middle East, Europe and Russia.

Trendsmap showing a number of countries with improved trends including Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

More Locations

We have also added 244 new locations with their very own local page across the globe, mainly in areas where our improved language coverage such as the Middle East, Russia, and parts of Europe.

In the Middle East a number of important cities have been added including recent news hotspots such as Damascus in Syria and Tripoli in Libya, as well as a number of smaller, previously unlisted cities in the region.

For a full list of the over 1300 local pages we now have, please see our Locations Page.

Better Coverage

We are now also doing more processing of data in areas where other languages are typically used.

This means that there is now a lot more hashtag and user trends in popular Twitter areas like South Korea and Japan.

This gives Trendsmap an even more detailed trend coverage across the globe than it has ever had.

More Data

Twitter has grown dramatically over recent years.

As such we have had to grow as well in terms of the volume of tweets we are processing.

Combine this growth with extra languages and additional data from a number of regions, we have gone from processing around 4 million tweets per day when we first started in 2009, to now processing over 60 million tweets per day from across the globe.

This means more trends, in more places as there are more tweets in areas where previously we wouldn’t have been able to extract a trend.

This increase has also allowed us to add in more locations, and we hope to continue to add more of these as possible.