Twitter Zeitgeist - June 13th Edition
Current State Of The Tweet:
As the Twitter community still wobbles and reels on the news of Tim Russert’s passing, the tides have turned a bit, and the community has started talking about the odes to Russert from the journalists themselves. Case in point, Keith Olbermann, who delivered a teary-eyed note of sympathy for his former collegue.
Twitscoop.com is also picking up some noise about Songbird, a desktop media player, which just released its new 0.6 software version.
Twitter Trends of The Day:
Tim Russert attack: Well-known journalist and the host of MSNBC’s Meet The Press, Tim Russert, passed away today at the MSNBC studios due to a heart attack. The Twitter community is both shocked and saddened by this news. Many people have admitted tearing up after hearing of the passing and hearing journalistic eulogies. He was 58 years old.
Kelly verdict: R&B singer R. Kelly was pronounced not guilty on all charges of child pornography after an video allegedly showed him performing sexual acts with a minor, including water sport (sexual urination). No word on whether the shock of this ridiculous verdict had anything to do with Tim Russert’s untimely death.
Holland France: Holland defeated France 4-1 in a Euro 2008 soccer match-up. The consensus on Twitter reads something like “FUCK YEAH, HOLLAND WOOOHOOOO!” Of course, there are a fair share of people who just don’t give a shit, but displayed their Dutch pride anyway. Damn front runners.
Measurement Blogpotomac: BlogPotomac is this year’s premiere social media marketing event for greater Washington DC. Discussion on Twitter was highly centered around social media measurement and determining the attitude behind your blogs community.
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Twitter Zeitgeist - June 12th Edition
So here is an idea. To light a fire under my ass to start posting more here, I figured I’d start a semi-daily post discussing the hottest trends and buzz words on Twitter. I’ll be using a collection of Twitter meme trackers to keep up with the hotness factor, and hopefully, this “Twitter Zeitgeist” will help us grab hold of the culture of social media.
Current State of the Tweet:
As it stands right now, according to Twitscoop.com the words “angry”, “blogger”, and “contest” were pretty much neck and neck for the trend words of the moment until TechCrunch posted about the new Google/Yahoo search partnership agreement. Right after this was posted, the word “announcement” was by far the leading trend word being Tweeted (coincidentally, Mike Arrington would also most likely win any “angry blogger contest”.)
This just goes to show how much influence TechCrunch has on Twitter, new media, and pretty much the entire web industry.
Trend’s Picked Up Today:
Germany Croatia - Germany vs. Croatia had a moment of hotness today when Croatia defeated the German’s 2-1 in a Euro 2008 Football (or Soccer as we in the States like to call it.)
Supreme Court - The good ole boys (and girl) of the Supreme Court today decided that Gitmo detainees could challenge their detention through the U.S. court system. CNN says this “decision marks another legal blow to the Bush administration’s war on terrorism policies.”
David Davis - British politician David Davis resigned from his position in parliament and title of the Shadow Home Secretary today. Sources say he did this to raise awareness of civil issues. The Twitter consensus seems to stand as respectful of the man, but there are still some who think he’s a “show boating moron”.
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After an hour or so of slaving over a hot keyboard, here is the official Soundtrack to Twit-Out for your listening pleasure! This playlist was produced by me and all of the great people over at Friendfeed contributing to the conversation. Give it a listen!
The Launch
Hey everyone! Thanks for stopping by my new personal blog.
For those of you who don’t know, I can be both an asshole and a decent guy, but you can bet I’ll always be honest about how I feel about a certain subject.
I’ll be using this page to post both things that interest me and personal details about my life. I hope you enjoy and if you want, please add me to your feed reader. I don’t have any ads on this page so I won’t be making any money off of this. This is just purely for fun. Thanks again and there’s more to come!
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