On any given day there are 750 tweets per second on Twitter for a total of 65 million tweets per day. With an overload of tweets daily it can be difficult to grasp what is really trending at any given moment. Use the tools below to quickly find current Twitter trends and trending conversations.

Trendsmap

Trendsmap is an interactive map with real-time Twitter trends. It’s Twitter trends meets Google Maps and it is the fastest way to view trends at a global and local level. Each trend has in-depth data including frequency and volume, a description of the trend and any links that are relevant.




What the Trend

What the Trend goes beyond just telling you what’s trending on Twitter to let you know WHY certain topics are trending. What the Trend also has a great section called “Week in Review” which highlights the top 20 trends of the week and their editors provide predictions for upcoming trends and analysis of current trends.




TweetedBrands

TweetedBrands is a collection of the 50 most mentioned brands on Twitter for the current day, the previous week and the last month. While this tool is a great way to see who is getting the most buzz on Twitter it isn’t grabbing all the mentions of keywords associated with a brand so it shouldn’t be used as the primary monitoring tool for buzz.




What the Hashtag?!

What the Hashtag?! is a user-editable encyclopedia for over 14,000 hashtags on Twitter. Each hashtag has a detailed information page with a definition, related hashtags, links, stats for the last 7 days and a list of the top contributors for that hashtag.




Thingbuzz

Thingbuzz is a site to discover the most talked about products through real-time Twitter search. The homepage shows the latest and most popular products that are being shared via Twitter. You can also search on Thingbuzz by the demographic that tweeted the product. For example, one of the most popular products being tweeted by “gamers” is a WiFi scale with over 6,000 tweets.




Twitter stats updated June 29, 2010