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Soon after enabling hashtags, which were undoubtedly made popular on the internet by Twitter, Facebook announced that it will soon start testing trending topics. At first the test was being conducted on a very small scale, trending topics were only available to U.S. users and that too through the Facebook mobile website. It has now rolled out the trending topics box on the main website’s homepage News Feed “to a small percentage of U.S. users.”

A Facebook spokeswoman has said that the feature is currently in early stages of development, adding that the social network will disclose more details if it plans on rolling out the feature to more users. As of now the trending topics box appears on the upper right hand corner on the main website, putting topics that are generating buzz across Facebook upfront, thus allowing users to easily know what’s trending at a glance. Clicking on a particular topic will reveal what a user’s friends and the general public is saying about it, the topic may relate to personalities or different subject matters. Trending topics make it quite easy for users to join in conversations taking place at a global scale, the results are evident on Twitter. Will they be able to command a similar following on Facebook? Lets wait and see. [Image via CNET]

Facebook Trending Topics Box Appears For Some U.S. Users original content from Ubergizmo.

Facebook is trialling a new “Trending” topics section pulling together current hot topics on the social network, in a move that is unlikely to do anything to dismiss accusations that the site is copying Twitter. The new section shows around five currently topical subjects in the upper right corner of the Facebook news feed, though […]

The folks at Twitter are the latest in a group of app developers to take advantage of the Google Play app beta program, this allowing users – friendly bug-seekers, to take part in an early release schedule. This program works quite simply – just sign up through a Google Group, agree to be a tester, […]

Given the apparent backlash over Twitter’s decision to add blue lines to its conversation view, we can’t help but wonder if things could be different had the company implemented an open beta test program before pushing it out to the masses. Whether or not that particular situation was the impetus, it looks like the company is following in the footsteps of Facebook and Snapchat and is launching an official Android beta — known simply as the Twitter for Android Experiment — for any interested souls. After agreeing to sign up for a Google Group, the beta actually replaces your current Twitter app, and you’re alerted each time a new build is available. As any good beta program should, there are plenty of opportunities for you to offer feedback on bugs; we’re not sure if you can report blue lines as a “bug,” but it’s still great to know that our voices can finally be heard before new features roll out to everyone.

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