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?
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