5. Trending Topics on the other hand is a list that Twitter provides on it’s homepage. A trend is a type of search; a term that is trending is simply a term that appears in higher frequency than other terms over a set amount of time.
14. To apply the appropriate streaming algorithm that will determine the most frequent terms in the Tweet stream
15. To formulate novelty measurement of trends that will put in consideration the f requency/time element of the terms
16. To create an application that will implement and help analyze trending topics.
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26. By the fact stated, it can be concluded that the terms enumerated are the most frequent terms on Twitter. As a matter of fact Figure 2 shows the consistency of the frequency of these terms to being high. In addition, these terms have high percentage of occurences as shown in Table 5.