And it is fascinating to watch the rise and fall of certain trending words.
Twitter generally lists 10 such trending words at a time, and in the evenings, television shows are well-represented.
The digital age confronts the writer with the tyranny of numbers: you can know instantly exactly how many books you did sell, just as Web sites can measure page views and Twitter can identify trending words.
Some of the top trending words on Weibo, China's closest answer to Twitter, today are linked to ByteDance's move, such as "social," "waging a war" and "Zhang Yiming," who founded ByteDance in 2012.
At the Garden, it's Words with Lin instead of Words with Friends: Linderella; Lincredible; Super Lintendo; and of course, Linsanity, the Twitter trending word of choice.
"We continue to see a direct correlation between trending word lookups and current events, and we find it encouraging that our users are dedicated to understanding the language and words that pop up in the biggest news stories of the year".
Changing media trends, word search choices, and cultural make-up of regions and over time may also affect the representativeness of internet search surveillance.
How to trend swear words in the Guardian "To borrow a phrase from Larry Wall, these APIs make easy things easy, hard jobs possible.
Writer Christopher Schreck was the first person (to my knowledge) to put this trend into words, in his 2012 article "On the Still-Life New Wave".
Writer Christopher Schreck was the first person (to my knowledge) to put this trend into words, in his 2012 article " On the Still-Life New Wave".
