forever-agent — HTTP Agent that keeps socket connections alive between keep-alive requests. Formerly part of mikeal/request, now a standalon
forever-agent keeps HTTP sockets alive across keep-alive requests for better performance.
SteadyWhy this scored 0
every term, weightedEngagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source
Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate
How many independent communities are talking about the same entity
Decays to zero over 14 days
Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked
Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology
Outlook
low confidence · estimate, not a guarantee7-day
~2
range 0–14
14-day
~2
range 0–16
30-day
~2
range 0–21
Signal history
7-day window (free)— — projected trajectory (estimate, not a guarantee)
Entities
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