One of the great things about Twitter is that it is a place for us to track the popular topics. However, if you’re looking for the local Twitter trends, specifically, the top five (5) trending topics in your city, then you should check out this Happn.in.
Happn.in, actually it is a newly built Web app with Sinatra, a Rails alternative and a Ruby framework good for microapps. Happn.in (pronounced “Happen In”) can help people do everything from track local trends to add value to your city’s Twitter activity by becoming a “Town Crier.”
On the front page of Happn.in, there are two ways to see the trends; you can either see it via a local Twitter trend map or on the old home page which list a succinct list of cities from different regions. To address the issue of “What’s going on near me?” Happn.in provides a graphical interface on the city of your residence in order to see the three (3) main features they offered, the current trends, dignitaries (the Town Crier) and the latest city feed, i.e. a collection of feeds related to a city.
In addition, Happn.in is one of the best ways to track Twitter trends in real-time as the lists of popular phrases for each city are recomputed every hour using a calculation, i.e. the ratio of the [percentage of users who used that phrase during the past hour] to the [mean percentage of users who used that phrase over the past week].
