Twitter Trends
Finding your next lens idea can be as close as the twitter trends on your profile page or in this case the top Twitter Trends in 2010. If they were the top twitter trends overall in 2010 chances are they are still popular topics worth exploring for the first part of 2011. Twitter has neatly divided them into categories for our interests making it super easy to find the trends in our niches.
Ten of my favorite topic lens ideas based on reading their results are:
- Movie review of Inception or 10 things I hate about Inception. Include video clip of trailer, link to purchase at Amazon and a guestbook for visitors to share their viewing experience.
- Apple iPad Review or Ten Ways to Get the Most Out of Your iPad or My favorite applications for iPad and how to use them. Ask visitors what their favorite app is. Have a five star rating poll on whether they love the iPad.
- Who is Justin Beiber fan page or 10 Reasons why Justin Beiber is a super sensation (or not). Include latest video clip, and amazon spotlight link, and amazon poster link.
- Hey Monkey Brain, why does latest Harry Potter movie suck debate. Link to other Harry Potter lenses on Squidoo because there are so many awesome ones worth sharing (what goes around comes around).
- My Favorite 10 Outfits Worn By Kate Middleton. Include images, have a poll after each one for visitors to vote on them. Ask a question in your guestbook like “Do you think Kate will make a great queen?”
- Mel Gibson’s Rants or a Monkey Brain debate for or against Mel.
- A comparison lens of the original and new Karate Kid movies.
- True Blood Deaths — a listing of characters who died and how they died on True Blood by season. Include a mini review of each season in the Amazon spotlight module. Have a five star poll about how much they love True Blood.
- A lens of anonymous confessions using the text list plexo (not the link one). Visitors can leave an anonymous confession and go. This would be a minimal module lens, intro explaining concept, text list, your twitter profile, an Amazon spotlight on a book about confessions or telling the truth or some other self help book. Have a poll asking whether confessions are good or bad.
- “When I was little…” is a great starter sentence for visitors to finish. You can use the twitter participation module or just the text list module or the guestbook module (except you are not calling it a guestbook). Have a Amazon module with five of your favorite childhood books.
The last two ideas have the potential to be very active participation lenses so you want to decrease the amount of advertising noise on the page.
Look at the Twitter Trends for 2010 list and see what you come up with and by all means feel free to use any of the ones I mentioned above to make lenses of your own.