Current Twitter trends: '#jan25,' Cairo digital communications blackout, Charlie Sheen

People on Twitter are using the hashtag "#jan25" to tweet about Egypt's "internet blackout" and the ongoing protests within the country.

"Please spread the word. We at #Egypt are being banned from all online and mobile presence! Help! #Jan25" and "good news, morales in cairo still high, veteran activists from 60s and 70s are spreading knowledge of predigital ways to coordinate #Jan25" [sic] read tweets.

Twitter users are also using their 140 characters to express anger at the Egyptian government, saying, "Who in the world, in 2011, shuts down the internet? An aging dictator called #Mubarak who has suffocated #Egypt for 30 years. #Jan25" and "'This is becoming the region first telecommunication civil war. Our internet & smart phones are weapons they won't allow us to have."

"Lexus" is promoted in first place and is followed by the hashtags "#onmymind" and "#goodboyfriend."

The name of American comedian "George Lopez" is fifth on Twitter's list of trending topics, professional basketball player "Yao Ming" is in sixth place and American actor "Charlie Sheen" is in seventh on the chart.

Twitterers are celebrating the last day of the working week with the term "Friday" and German-speakers are wishing the world "good morning" with ninth place term "Guten Morgen."

The top 10 most talked about topics on Twitter on January 28 at 7:30 AM GMT are:

1. Lexus (promoted)
2. #onmymind (new)
3. #goodboyfriend (new)
4. #jan25 (new)
5. George Lopez (new)
6. Yao Ming (new)
7. Charlie Sheen (new)
8. Friday (new)
9. Guten Morgen (new)
10. Cairo (new)