Oct 12, 2008
Puzzled: Suck My Lamp?
By: Kyle
Odd things have a tendency to trend on twitter.
Take right now for example. As of right now, the phrase “Suck My Lamp” is trending on Twitter. It seems that people like to engineer the search results. It certainly seems that way.
Below is an image of the front page:
As you can see in the image, Suck My Lamp has trended to the near top, only being shadowed by the general tag #redsox .
When you click on Suck My Lamp, this is what you get:
While this might seem like a trivial thing to post about, its 1 AM in the morning, and I simply found it odd that something like this was trending. It’s not the first time that odd trends have popped up. TechCrunch reported on an odd occurrence a few days ago, where it seems like Twitter Search was getting pranked by accounts (probably dummies) posting a certain time, causing it to trend.
I know I’m really making any sense, but I feel like that’s okay. It’s 1 AM (actually 1:30…I need a life).
I’ll report on more unusual trends as time go by.
kyle [at] kyleleboeuf.com