'Returns a list with 10 trending topics on Twitter.'

def trends(self, **kwargs):

    url = URL('https://api.twitter.com/1.1/trends/place.json?id=1')
    url = self._authenticate(url)
    kwargs.setdefault('cached', False)
    kwargs.setdefault('unicode', True)
    kwargs.setdefault('throttle', self.throttle)
    try:
        data = url.download(**kwargs)
        data = json.loads(data)
    except HTTP400BadRequest:
        return []
    return [u(x.get('name')) for x in data[0].get('trends', [])]
