Welcome

Vector of NileI am Nile Flores, a sassy web designer and developer - a webmistress. I live in Centralia, Illinois, which is about an hour from St. Louis. Blondish.net is where I can freely share my love of all things involving web design, graphic design, web developing, and even my experience as a blogger. Join me on my journey. I hope I do not disappoint.
Blondish.net Rss Follow Me On Twitter Follow Me On Facebook Contact Me

When Twitter Trending Topics Fail

Written by Nile | Posted in Blogging | Posted on Date 24-01-2010 | Comments 0 Comments
Tags: ,

Share

Trending topics are something I like to look at on occasion, especially if the topics listed on Twitter are something that falls in to any of my interests. Of course, something I like to look for entertainment reasons. I am sure a lot of other people feel the same way.

However, I am finding there are a lot of people that just have no brains about what is trending. And example of this is the most recent trending topic fail labeled RIP Johnny Depp or just Johnny Depp. This could have been prevented if people did not give into the attention and never replied or used the keywords. Johnny Depp is not dead at all. He is very much alive.

Same goes with the Dfizzy (@dfizzy) incidents in 2009, especially the ones of him encouraging his followers to say Miley Cyrus was pregnant and get that trending to the very top. Of course, within hours, Twitter removed it, and apparently it pissed off some big names. That was not the only incident he encouraged, but it is nothing new for the attention wanting teen.

I love it that Twitter does not censor too many things, but I believe some juggling around trending topics might prove a better move for Twitter, especially on issues like this. Now, I am pretty sure Johnny Depp, as I have observed from his interviews on television, is laid back and will have a good laugh, but what if it were someone else? – someone else who is not so understanding?

I think that Twitter should decide what topics are trendworthy, rather than spamworthy.

Have you seen Twitter trending topic fails like this or something similar? What are your thoughts?

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Ping.fm
  • RSS
  • StumbleUpon
  • FriendFeed
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Identi.ca
  • LinkedIn
  • MySpace
  • Reddit
  • Technorati
  • Twitter
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Facebook
  • Netvibes
  • NewsVine
  • Posterous
  • Socialogs
  • Sphinn
  • blogmarks
  • Blogosphere News
  • Slashdot
  • Suggest to Techmeme via Twitter
  • Mixx

Related posts:

  1. Thank You Twitter For Cleaning House, But…
  2. Teens Are Not Using Twitter? Yeah, right!
  3. Nice Homepage Twitter, But What Now?

About Nile Flores

Nile is 29 year old female from Southern Illinois. Nile is a mother of 1 son. She is also a web and graphic designer, who exclusively designs using WordPress. She is currently a student working for a Bachelors in Business. She also blogs at WPAddict.net and FamousBloggers.net

Connect with Nile at: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

Nile has written 424 articles at Blondish.net.

Write a comment

ss_blog_claim=0ecba4af6bb1a8dccd90dffa7f9ff743