I just pushed an overhaul of tweetbe.at buzzlists, which is a project I’ve been working on: trending topics for specific domains.
The idea is to show trending topics from experts in various fields. From wine aficionados to forex traders - buzzlists distills their trends: a miniaturized, scoped and more relevant version of the twitter trending topics.
I now have lists for a large variety of topics, which work to varying degrees. One issue I’ve been working through is that my sets of topic experts are not always posting enough to make any trends. I’ve now added an invitation to readers to help with the list of experts, which is managed through twitter lists.
I’ve started running the service against more lists now:
Calculating these trends can be computationally non-trivial and I hand pick the domain experts, so I have be slow to add domains - but my hope is to grow the list by an order of magnitude and even potentially allow any tweetbe.at user to create their own trends page for their own custom list of people.
