Jay-Z the #1 Trending Artist on Twitter
by waynesutton
To take a look at Jay-Z ’s trending reign on Twitter you’ll have to go back to June 5 when Jay-Z released Death of Autotunes track. We covered it here on the post “Jay-Z Kills AutoTune via Twitter with D.O.A.” Ever since then Jay-Z has been trending on Twitter longer than any other music artist. Jay hasn’t been trending every day since June 5 but every time a new announcement about the Blueprint 3 album was made he would crawl back to #1 trending on Twitter or reappear.
Read MoreTrend with Truth: The Real Maia Campbell Story
by Robin Caldwell
Today I looked in the trending topics on Twitter and saw a familiar name, Maia Campbell, the sweet faced, beautifully locked girl from L.L. Cool J’s TV sitcom, In the House. I read hundreds of tweets but only found one kind post asking that folks stop making fun of her and pray instead. I then saw a post containing the link to a video featuring Maia on Youtube.com. I watched as much as possible and decided to tweet what I knew. Maia is schizophrenic; a fact that brought her late mother Bebe Moore Campbell and her father and step-father much anguish.
Read MoreBET Awards Dominate Twitter, Causes Racist Backlash
by Angela
Say what you will about the content of the BET Awards. I tuned in late but monitored activity on Twitter last night and to be quite honest was surprised and pleased to see not only Twitter’s integration into the show but also the show dominating trending topics on Twitter. They even used the awards show [...]
Read MoreMichael Jackson “Collapses” Web as Twitter Trends His Death and Google Sleeps?!
by Robin Caldwell
Michael Jackson’s name surfaced in the number 3 and 6 positions on Google’s list of the top 100 trending topics about fifty-four or more minutes after the first tweet on Twitter trended the same topic.
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