This data is derived from the Twitter Trends API method. Samples are taken every 5 minutes. Data collection began on 2008-09-23.
If you're looking for a desktop Twitter client, you might consider
Spaz, an open-source Twitter client written in JavaScript for the AIR platform.
These stats are collected by a
PHP script and stored in a
CouchDB server.
CodeIgniter, a PHP framework, was used to create this web app. The chart is generated by the
Google Chart API, and the sortable table is courtesy of
jQuery +
tablesorter. Source code is available
on Github.
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