GET trends

Updated on Mon, 2011-10-10 14:23

This method is deprecated and has been replaced by GET trends/:woeid. Please update your applications with the new endpoint.

Returns the top ten topics that are currently trending on Twitter. The response includes the time of the request, the name of each trend, and the url to the Twitter Search results page for that topic.

Resource URL

http://api.twitter.com/1/trends.format

Example Request

GET http://api.twitter.com/1/trends.json

  1. {
  2.   "trends": [
  3.     {
  4.       "name": "#sidechick",
  5.       "url": "http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23sidechick"
  6.     },
  7.     {
  8.       "name": "#confessionhour",
  9.       "url": "http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23confessionhour"
  10.     },
  11.     {
  12.       "name": "#mainchick",
  13.       "url": "http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23mainchick"
  14.     },
  15.     {
  16.       "name": "Maria Cino",
  17.       "url": "http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Maria+Cino"
  18.     },
  19.     {
  20.       "name": "Alicia Silverstone",
  21.       "url": "http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Alicia+Silverstone"
  22.     },
  23.     {
  24.       "name": "Dave Grohl",
  25.       "url": "http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Dave+Grohl"
  26.     },
  27.     {
  28.       "name": "Keanu Reeves",
  29.       "url": "http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Keanu+Reeves"
  30.     },
  31.     {
  32.       "name": "Michael Steele",
  33.       "url": "http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Michael+Steele"
  34.     },
  35.     {
  36.       "name": "Leonie",
  37.       "url": "http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Leonie"
  38.     },
  39.     {
  40.       "name": "Anuzis",
  41.       "url": "http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Anuzis"
  42.     }
  43.   ],
  44.   "as_of": "Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:05:42 +0000"
  45. }