Will Trendistic Trump Trendrr For Tracking Twitter Trends?

GIGAOM — As we saw with the death of Michael Jackson and the Iranian election protests, statistics on tweets help to reveal how information spreads across the web. For many, Trendrr has emerged as the digital tracking service of choice, lauded for its both its ability to procure stats and charts on Twitter trends and for its easy-to-use user interface. But while some may find Trendrr’s UI intuitive, compared with a lesser-known rival, Buenos Aires-based Trendistic, I’ve found it hard to navigate. And it can require far more clicks to get to the same stats. Flaptor’s Trendistic, formerly known as Twist, tracks and charts the percentage of tweets that mention a certain search term over time...