Top 10 Twitter Trends of the Week
LOS ANGELES (CBS) Want to know what everyone was buzzing about online this week? With the help of WhatTheTrend.com, here's the top 10 Twitter topic trends of the week:
1) MTV VMA's
Lady Gaga accepted the award for Video of the Year (for "Bad Romance") at MTV's VMAs Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010, wearing a dress, shoes and purse made out of pieces of raw meat. The Band 30 Seconds To Mars won the 2010 MTV VMA Best Rock Video for "Kings and Queens."
2) NFL
Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, and Indianapolis Colts safety Bob Sanders were the most tweeted about individuals. Sanders was injured recently in a game against the Houston Texans. He has a torn biceps tendon and will be out indefinitely.
3) Taylor Swift-Kanye West Controversy
People are writing their thoughts and reactions about Taylor Swift's premiere of her song "Innocent," which she performed at the 2010 MTV VMAs. Kanye West's MTV VMA performance with the lyrics "Let's have a toast" has inspired people to also tweet about things to which they should toast.
4) 9/11 Remembrance
Nine years ago on Sept. 11, 2001, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed in a terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000. People remembered that day tweeting Twin Towers, God Bless America, #neverforget and #wherewereyou.
5) Power Puff Girls
People are tweeting about their favorite memories of the PowerPuff Girls and their favorite character from the show. It originally started trending last Saturday when the show aired on TRANS7, one of Indonesia's TV stations.
6) Mexico Bicentennial
Mexico celebrated its Bicentennial Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. The Bicentennial Celebration at the Zocalo included a variety of fireworks and a military parade.
7) Twitter
This week, Twitter itself trended when it introduced a new, re-engineered Twitter.com website design. There will be the standard user timeline but underneath each Tweet is additional information and embedded media (videos/photos). If you click on an individual Tweet, a details pane will slide to the right to reveal this extra content.
8) Google
Google's latest Doodle on its British and Irish websites celebrated the 120th anniversary of mystery writer Agatha Christie's birth.
9) Soccer/Football
The UEFA Champions League 2010-2011 started Tuesday, Sept. 14. Popular football memes this week were "Imortal Tricolor," is the nickname for Brazilian football team Gremio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense. Fans of Spanish football team Real Madrid were chanted "Hala Madrid" to support them when they beat Ajax 2-0.
10) Restart
Sometimes being a trending topic isn't a good thing. As a reaction to the appearance of the band Restart on the top trends list, users are expressing their dislike of the Brazilian band by tweeting "CALA BOCA COLORIDAS," meaning "Shut Up, Colorful Girls" in Portuguese. Restart is part of a new "colorful rock" movement whose fans wear gaudy clothes and sport weird haircuts.