It may seem strange, but millions of TikTok users are tuning in to watch videos of a viral trend where bottles and jars filled with drinks or food are rolled down steps before shattering.
If you have even a passing interest in British politics, you’ll know that Dominic Cummings has had a rough week. Deservedly so, because he’s an absolute prat.
Twitter isn’t known for backing down from a challenge. After former Bafana Bafana player Mark Fish’s clanger yesterday, social media users stepped up.
Nowadays there’s no such thing as leaving a question unanswered, because if no one knows its off to Google we go. Well done South Africa, these are great.
Harlem Shake, the fox, Miley Cyrus, the russian meteorite – they’re all there. But there are a few surprise inclusions. For your educational edification, please enjoy this run down of the top viral, music, and news videos on YouTube in 2013.
You might have spotted @2ovfm trending on Twitter yesterday. It happens. Fairly often. Yesterday’s trending was to do with a competition we ran on the Just Josie show which broadcasts Monday to Thursday from 12h00 to 15h00. Go to 2ov.fm on your browser or phone to listen. It’s pretty damn cool.
Sort of. HP recently released a study looking under the hood of Twitter’s ‘Trending Topics’ function – revealing (gasp) that most of the time, popular topics get broadcast by major media twitter accounts, then amplified by their followers, rather than some wanky cloud-based news system.