Though it could easily be argued that Trendsmap, a website that maps Twitter trends across the world in real-time, is just riding Twitter’s coattails into popularity, there’s no denying that being able to “see what the global, collective mass of humanity is discussing right now” is pretty amazing, to say the least.
Twitter has become ridiculously big over the past three years. Because of this monumental success and the ease with which crafty developers have been able to leverage the program’s API, Twitter has become an entire industry unto itself.
It’s almost not an exaggeration to say that just about every week a new start-up company emerges that has found a seemingly new way to incorporate an aspect of Twitter into their new product. Admittedly, many of them aren't all that useful, but every now and again one pops up that appears to have a real chance of surviving.
It seems as if Trendsmap definitely falls into this category. Upon first glance it’s easy to dismiss the program as yet another application that incorporates Twitter and tries to repackage the results as something different, but if you spend a few moments becoming acquainted with this awesome new program you’ll see that it has a lot to offer in terms of useful information.
After all, sometimes you just want to open up your web browser and see what’s going on in your specific area. And yes, real-time search is becoming a trend of its own, but Trendsmap is super effective when it comes to quickly being able to reveal local events and information that’s important to a user’s individual needs and tastes.