Trending topics are all the rage in today’s vast internet blogosphere. New topics from around the world become popular whenever people tweet about them. Twitter’s Help Center describes them as providing Twitter users “the ‘most breaking’ news stories from around the world.” To post a trending topic all one must do is use the hash-tag symbol # and voila, you have the world’s newest topic, for a second or two.
As of right now the movie opening tonight featuring Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman, “#NoStringsAttached” is the number one trending topic in the world. People are definitely playing up this romantic comedy because of the two big stars in it, not to mention how good looking they are.
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The number one trending topic of this week is “#10oclocklive” which is a startup British satire news program that had its first show last night. According to some reviews on internet news and entertainment sites, the show didn’t live up to the hype in Britain.
On Google, there is another site dedicated to hot topics and hot searches. So far today, some school closings in the Twin Cities even made the top 10 for hot topics and searches on Google. The cold weather caused many schools around the area to be closed. Another hot Google search was for a video of a woman falling into a fountain while texting last week. In case you haven't seen it, here it is.
Twitter and Google both use algorithms to decide which topics are hot and trending across the virtual world at the current time. These topics let people know what’s going on but they can also get addicting and people will keep refreshing twitter just to see what other people are doing and talking about. Another thing that I think Twitter and its trending topics can do is cause a lot of harm. It can harm our job applications because businesses are inspecting our social networking accounts more and more. It can harm our small businesses when they use Twitter as a marketing tool if their followers find their updates as meaningless and time consuming. It can also hurt our morals and values as a whole human race.
Summing up my thoughts on Twitter and its trending topic and Google Trends, I’d like to say that the potential impact on society that trending topics is not realized fully yet. But with Twitter and Google, micro-blogging is becoming just as popular as regular blogging and easier to do, but with what consequences?
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I thought your use of multimedia was really good in these blogs. Your pictures were very creative, and related well to your writing. Same applies to your videos. They went well with your topic. These really help to engage your readers, and elaborate on your topics. To help you out a little, I'm just going to give you a few suggestions for your writing. Make sure you really read through your blog and make sure every sentence makes sense. Make sure your sentences are not too wordy and be conscious of run on sentences. These things can be hard to follow and confusing for the reader. Another thing that may help your writing is to be aware of over using certain words. Look up words in thesaurus if you feel like you may be repeating some. This will help your overall writing but also your credibility too.
ReplyDeleteI found your blog to be both very useful as well as informative. The first topic that you bring up about the new Movie "No Strings Attached" has been on my to-do list since I heard of its release. The use of multi-media is exceptional and pertinent. The sources you used appear to be valid and compliment your blog nicely. One suggestion I will give you is that it might be nice to include a hyperlink to a movie review site regarding more information about the upcoming movie “No Strings Attached”. The picture itself is great, but if the reader wanted to learn more about the movie a hyperlink would be helpful. I have a few suggestions for future topics after reviewing your interests and the topic of your blog.
ReplyDeleteOne could be to blog about the trends in celebrities, and how they affect how people dress and act today.
Another could relate to how we as young adults feed off the information that we read on Facebook, and how the trends there affect our daily lives.
Keep up the good work!