"Cocaine" trends every Saturday early morning, leading me to believe nobody has their thumbs on that particular scale.

I think Twitter is OK with drugs and adult content being trendy, but not OK with politically incorrect ones. There has to be a manual approval process, but effectively invisible, because in my opinion, an automated and non-supervised system for trending is a recipe for the disaster.

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