I decided to write my niche subject of Twitter’s trending topics on a separate blog just to spice up my blogging life a little bit. Plus it gives me more space to talk about why these topics are trending etc.
So this week the topics have been fairly obvious given the time of year we’re in.
Still riding high on the list of trending topics after Thursday is Thanksgiving. SOO many messages popped up on my twitter homepage on Thursday with the majority of them being based around the holiday.
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Celebrities from Katy Perry, High School Musical star Ashley Tisdale and Matthew Perry posted Thanksgiving messages. As we all know the day after Thanksgiving is Black Friday and boy was there a lot of people getting their shop on. Figures released showed that $10.66 billion was spent which was a 0.5% increase on the previous year. With the current economic crisis retailers on the whole were pretty pleased with the outcome.
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Another trending topic related to the time of the year we’re in is Christmas, which is likely to stay in the trending topics for the next couple of weeks.
The weather is certainly making everyone feel more Christmassy with the temperatures dropping to freezing. I love how dark it gets early especially when people put up christmas decorations. The shopping season is now in full swing and I have yet to buy a single present. My best friend wants perfume, my sister wants an album, my mum wants the Foo Fighters greatest hits… and I have no idea what my dad wants… beer maybe? The music channels have started playing The Top 20 Christmas songs and no doubt the X Factor on Saturday will have a HUGE christmas tree taking up half the stage. We’re putting up our decorations at home this weekend which makes me excited! It gets me all excited for the 25th December. One of my pet hates though is people who put up christmas decorations in the middle of October. It baffles me. It makes you all christmassy then you realise you have to wait another 2 months before Santa even pops his head down your chimney.
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Finally one of the other trending topics this week has been Tiger Woods. This follows his car accident outside his house in the early hours of Friday morning. The events surrounding the accident are somewhat blurred with various celebrity news sites such as TMZ and Perez Hilton reporting that his wife, model Elin Nordegren, found out about an alleged affair chasing him out of the house causing him to crash. Indeed the police have said that some of the damage done to the car appears to have been caused by something else and is not consistent with the accident (such as the windows being smashed). However at the moment this is all gossip, and we all know to take news reported online with a pinch of salt at times.
Here’s a video from CNN about the crash
Until next time….
