osint · global trends

Global Trending Topic OSINT

What the world is searching for, talking about, and reporting on right now. Google trends from 21 countries on every continent are merged per topic, then matched against worldwide X trends, world news, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Reddit to find events that are truly global.

Trending board

Overview shows topics trending in many countries and on many platforms at once. Filter by country to see what is buzzing in one place. Click a topic for related news and pivot links. Data refreshes automatically every 5 minutes.

Note: trending does not mean true. Topics can be pushed by bots or coordinated cross-border campaigns. Google Trends volumes are estimates summed across countries, topics in different languages are not merged automatically, and Wikipedia uses yesterday's data (UTC). Always verify with primary sources before sharing.

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Cross-country topics

Google Trends topics currently trending in two or more countries at once. The more countries, the more likely it is a global-scale event.

    Cross-platform signals

    Topics from Google Trends (multi-country), worldwide X, and English Wikipedia that also appear in other sources' headlines or news. The more platforms, the more likely it is a real event.

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      Data sources

      Fetched by this site's server with a 10–60 minute cache per source. Google Trends is pulled from 21 countries at once; if some countries or a source fail, the rest still show.

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        Google Trends (multi-negara) ↗

        Google daily trends from 21 countries across every continent, merged per topic. Topics trending in many countries at once rise to the top; estimated search volumes are summed.

        Google · RSS trending harian 21 negara
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        X (Twitter) Worldwide ↗

        Worldwide X trending topics from the latest hourly card on trends24.in. Tweet counts exist for some topics only.

        trends24.in · trending X worldwide per jam
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        Google News World ↗

        Top world stories from the World section of Google News (English edition), gathered from global outlets such as Reuters, AP, BBC, and Al Jazeera.

        Google News · RSS rubrik World (en-US)
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        Wikipedia bahasa Inggris ↗

        The most-read en.wikipedia.org articles (the largest Wikipedia, read worldwide) on the latest complete day (usually yesterday, UTC).

        Wikimedia REST API · artikel paling banyak dibaca kemarin
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        YouTube (multi-negara) ↗

        Most popular videos across 6 YouTube regions (US, GB, IN, BR, JP, ID), merged per video. Only active when the server has a YOUTUBE_API_KEY.

        YouTube Data API v3 · mostPopular US/GB/IN/BR/JP/ID
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        Reddit r/worldnews ↗

        Hottest threads in r/worldnews, one of the largest world-news communities (pinned threads excluded). Reddit often blocks cloud servers, so this source may be empty.

        Reddit · JSON publik /r/worldnews/hot

      Trending topic OSINT techniques

      • Count countries: a topic trending simultaneously in many countries (a major earthquake, a tournament final, the death of a world figure) is almost always a real event; a spike in a single country needs its local context checked.
      • Find the first country: open the Google Trends pivot without a country filter and look at the "Interest by subregion" map to see where the spike started.
      • Topics in different languages are not merged automatically ("terremoto" vs "earthquake"): filter by country and compare manually, or use proper names that are the same in every language.
      • The GDELT pivot lists articles from outlets worldwide in the last 24 hours, useful to see how media in different countries frame the same event.
      • Compare with the Indonesia board: global topics that also trend in Indonesia show world issues currently reaching the local public.
      • Save snapshots (JSON/CSV export) regularly; trends vanish quickly and public archives are limited.

      Ethics & limits

      • Public data aggregation only: trend lists, news headlines, and aggregate statistics. No personal account data is collected or stored.
      • Trending is not fact. Do not spread claims from trending topics without verifying them against primary sources.
      • Do not use this page to target, harass, or unmask people who are being talked about.
      • Headlines and stories remain the copyright of their outlets and platforms; this page only links to them.