For some reason I have a suspicion that Github Trending is game-able. I tweeted once about this suspect repo that had 3000+ stars and all it said was something like "Hello to all github trending viewers" or something along those lines.

Link to the author of that repo: https://github.com/mandatoryprogrammer

What remains of the repo is visible in his profile.

Anybody have a clue as to how he did it?