Why Isn’t #demo2010 Trending On Twitter?
Today’s massive student protests in Britain have produced a huge amount of Twitter traffic, much of it using the #demo2010 hashtag. But although a number of tags and phrases connected with the demonstrations have trended in the UK over the course of the day, #demo2010 has been strangely — and entirely — absent from the country’s trending topics list.
Why that’s the case still isn’t clear, but a comparison of the relative frequency of tweets using that tag with