We are currently seeing the same trend appearing through the API for the one location at different positions. So for example at the moment for Cape Town (accessed via /1.1/trends/place.json?id=1591691) you get this result with ‘South Africa’ at the 2nd and 7th position (see below). There are a number of other examples of this such as Poland (Has ‘End Date’ listed 4 times!). This problem isn’t replicated in the web client if you canhge your location to Cape Town or Poland though.
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{"name":"#BBM","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23BBM","promoted_content":null,"query":"%23BBM","events":null},
{"name":"South Africa","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%22South+Africa%22","promoted_content":null,"query":"%22South+Africa%22","events":null},
{"name":"#SouthAfrica","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SouthAfrica","promoted_content":null,"query":"%23SouthAfrica","events":null},
{"name":"#mixrevolution","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23mixrevolution","promoted_content":null,"query":"%23mixrevolution","events":null},
{"name":"BBM","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=BBM","promoted_content":null,"query":"BBM","events":null},
{"name":"#Africa","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Africa","promoted_content":null,"query":"%23Africa","events":null},
{"name":"South Africa","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%22South+Africa%22","promoted_content":null,"query":"%22South+Africa%22","events":null},
{"name":"#CHASEFest","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CHASEFest","promoted_content":null,"query":"%23CHASEFest","events":null},
{"name":"Dineo","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Dineo","promoted_content":null,"query":"Dineo","events":null},
{"name":"BBM","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=BBM","promoted_content":null,"query":"BBM","events":null}],"as_of":"2013-10-22T06:12:23Z","created_at":"2013-10-22T05:58:49Z",
"locations":[{"name":"Cape Town","woeid":1591691}]}]
