The app was designed in D3.js to show global twitter trends. The data is obtained directy from twitter using its v1.1 API and refreshed every day around 06:00 to 09:00 UTC.

The backend runs on Google Cloud and uses a compute engine instance that runs a python script that pulls the trends data from twitter, this compute instance is started and stopped using Google Cloud's instance scheduler. After the instance pulls the data from twitter it writes it into a storage bucket to make it available for the D3.js visualization.