Guess what's not trending on twitter anymore

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

Afghanistan

[Srkdqltr]

1. Over it already, are they?

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

3. Everyone is too busy

Talking about Tim Tebow, eminem playing white boy Rick, the newest marvel movie, Star Wars, Black cats and new zealand

[marble falls]

2. Good. It needs to trend down here, too.

[SoonerPride]

11. this

[Polly Hennessey]

4. That didn't take long.

[Sympthsical]

5. It's not supposed to be read that way. It's not a ranking in the way commonly thought.

How Twitter determines what's trending is a strange little algorithm.

If you look at a list of what's trending now in the US, you'll see a lot of those topics have under 10,000 tweets.

The algorithm just highlights what's new that day for the most part or tries to determine what might be going viral. You'll notice it's often some niche bit of nothing that a segment of people are on about at the moment.

I doubt under 10k Twitter users are discussing Afghanistan.

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

6. Ok smarty pants

Joking.

[Sympthsical]

7. LOL. I really dislike Twitter in general

I think it's toxic and makes people actively dumber. It reduces complex subjects to brief hot takes. It is still weird to me that "journalists" spend all day on the thing getting into slap fights with each other. It's digital high school.

If it makes you feel better, I popped open the Twitter app on my phone to check after reading your post. On the front page under "What's Happening," six of the top eight were about Afghanistan.

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

8. Yeah Twitter and a lot of social platforms are very toxic

And making people dumber

[Treefrog]

12. "Digital high school."

Perfect!

[GoodRaisin]

9. All the doom sayers and Biden bashers have left now

that it appears that our extremely competent president is getting the situation under control?

They don't want good news, only news they can fling poo at.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Don't look now, but Rick Snott has just dragged it back in.