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Differentiation between popularity and novelty? What a succinct explanation. Incidentally Twitter originally used popularity, but switched to novelty[1] because Justin Bieber regularly dominated the trending tweets list.

[1]http://mashable.com/2010/05/14/twitter-improves-trending-top...



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