I was today days old when I learned there’s a free site that has been tracking X’s (formerly Twitter’s) trending topics in real time, with a separate page for every country and hourly snapshots going back 24 hours — for over a decade. No login, no app, no account, no subscription. Just open trends24.in/united-states/ and you can see the top 50 trends right now, plus what was trending an hour ago, plus the day’s longest-running trends. The thing X itself made you log in for.
What it is:
Trends24 is a live aggregator of X (formerly Twitter) trending topics, organized by country. The US page lives at trends24.in/united-states/. Each country page shows the current top 50 trends with tweet counts beside each one, refreshed roughly every 30 minutes. Below the live list is a 24-hour timeline — an hour-by-hour rolling window of how each trend rose, peaked, and fell. There are special lists too: “Longest Trending” (what has stayed in the top 50 longest in the last 24 hours), “New Trends” (what just appeared), and “Popular Active Trends.” It is a browser page. There is no app, no install, no account, no paywall. The trending data is free.
Why it exists (and what X stopped doing):
Once upon a time, Twitter showed you trending topics on its home page whether you were logged in or not. That surface has been progressively degraded and login-walled across the Twitter-to-X transition — the public version got thinner, the good version moved behind an account, and the API access that powered every third-party trend dashboard tightened to the point that most of them shut down. Trends24 didn’t. It has been mirroring the publicly available trending data and presenting it free, on per-country pages, without login, for over a decade. The pitch writes itself: while the official source got worse, the unofficial mirror kept getting more useful. This is not an official X product or partner — it is an independent third-party aggregator of publicly available trending data, and that’s the whole point.
What you can actually do with it:
Pick the US page and scroll the top 50 trends. The tweet count beside each one gives you a quick sense of scale — you can see at a glance which trends are massive and which just barely made the cut. Click into another country and you get the same view for the UK, India, Japan, Brazil, Turkey, Korea, Germany, and roughly 80 others. There’s a worldwide view too. Check “Longest Trending” to see what has refused to die today — usually a mix of one big news story and one persistent hashtag campaign. Check “New Trends” to see what just broke. Scrub the 24-hour timeline to watch how the rankings moved across the day. It is a single browser tab that tells you what every English-speaking and non-English-speaking corner of X is talking about right now, and how that changed in the last day.
Who runs it (the operator-opacity note):
Here’s the honest part. There is no founder credit on the homepage. No company name. The footer just says “trends24.in — tracking X (formerly Twitter) Trending Topics over a decade.” The site has been quietly running for over ten years with no public attribution. Monetization is a linked Gumroad store called hub.trends24.in that sells premium products to subscribers — but the main trending data carries no paywall and the homepage shows no visible ads. Some discovery sites are corporate ventures with funding and a roadmap. Some are passion projects. This one is in the latter bucket and that’s part of the appeal — an anonymously-run public utility that has done one thing well, every day, for over a decade.
How to start (no login, just a URL):
Go to trends24.in/united-states/ for the US page. Swap the country slug at the end of the URL for any of the roughly 80 other countries the site covers, or hit the country picker. Scroll the top 50, watch the 24-hour timeline, glance at “Longest Trending” and “New Trends.” That’s the whole site. No login, no signup, no install, no popup. The thing X stopped giving you for free is still being given to you for free by a small independent site that has outlasted half a dozen redesigns of the platform it covers.