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Wednesday Time Waster
April 16, 2008 2:54 PM
The Web’s newest time waster launched today: Facebook Lexicon. Similar to Google Trends, Lexicon allows users to search words used in Wall posts; the feature spits out a little graph that shows the popularity of the term in wall posts according to month, week or day. Users can also compare the popularity of two terms.
(Facebook and ABCNEWS.com have collaborated on Facebook politics application.)
Since September, mentions of Barack Obama have far outpaced mentions of Hillary Clinton on members’ walls, peaking in the first week of February. Mentions of Mac spiked in November, just as the sexy-skinny MacBook Air was announced.
But what I’d really like to know is what are the most-used terms on walls today, this week and last month, which are easily accessible on Google Trends.
Then again, maybe I’m just a lazy reporter, a phrase that got no hits on either Lexicon or Google Trends.
-- Ashley Phillips
April 16, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (0)
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