perhaps normies aren't seeing it either. this would be a form of trending shadowbanning. it is possible.
To everyone wondering why different people are getting different numbers. There are two main possibilities. One is bad and the other is expected.
1) Twitter is fucking with the trend count. I think this is less likely than 2.
2) All of these huge internet companies have thousands of servers all over the place. They aggregate data lazily, meaning that every server that is serving people doesn't have the most recent data for most things. Trending lists is one of them. A process runs in the background of each cluster and then those clusters exchange updated information. Trending counts are therefore delayed – they're NOT real-time.
I believe before we think they're fucking with it, we need to watch it for longer and see if it indeed goes down and stays down. To me, it looks just like lazy updating of a clustered hierarchy.
If you see it go down, it is most likely (extremely likely) that your subsequent web request was handled by a different server that has a different (older) cached value it is reporting.
>reports back to a main server farm
Or multiple clusters update each other.
You can call it whatever you want.
Right on schedule…almost like it was … planned.
give these fuckers some MSM love with #ObamaGate. They're complicit.
>logged in yes, logged out no.
cookie identification. they're not fucking around. don't underestimate their sneakiness. :)
no.
keep watching. the servers update lazily.