{"id":3631,"date":"2018-04-17T21:11:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T04:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sparktoro.com\/blog\/?page_id=3631"},"modified":"2018-05-14T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T23:28:57","slug":"how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sparktoro.com\/blog\/how-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"How SparkToro Trending Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SparkToro Trending is an aggregated list of the links most shared by active web marketers on Twitter each day. 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