Current Twitter trends: Super Junior Trot, Gmail, Click
Thursday 25 February 2010
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Korean boy bands are back in the top end of Twitter's trending topics on Thursday, February 25.
Super Junior-Trot, otherwise known as Super Junior-T, are a sub-group of the popular Korean boy band Super Junior. Super Junior-T are highly regarded in Korea for their "trot songs" (trot songs are recognizable for their distinctive background "trotting" beat and are one of the oldest forms of Korean pop music).
The vibrant fan following of Super Junior-T fans are using Twitter to congratulate the band on their third anniversary.
An article about Gmail Lab features on technology blog Mashable has been retweeted around the social network Thursday morning. Google announced it was going to implement six Gmail features that had been trialed in its Gmail Labs (Google's Gmail testing environment where everyday users can opt to help Google test new mail features) and retire five others.
The term "Click" appeared at number eight in Twitter's most talked about topics list on February 25. "WARNING Clicking on DMs saying: "This you???? http://..." will hack your account! Do NOT click these links!" wrote users warning of phishing scams spreading through the Twittersphere.
The top 10 most talked about topics on Twitter on February 25 at 9:30 AM GMT are:
1. #nowplaying (unchanged)
2. #SuperJuniorTrot (new)
3. #nothingworsethan (new)
4. #ThatsYouHuh (new)
5. #forUs (new)
6. Gmail Retires 5 (new)
7. #its2010whyyoustill (-5)
8. Click (new)
9. #uever (new)
10. My Top Subjects (new)
- 1 Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim
- 2 Osborne gets fingers burnt as pasty tax crumbles
- 3 News in pictures
- 4 Four Britons face death by firing squad after 'smuggling cocaine into Bali'
- 5 The 'suburban smuggler' facing death penalty in Indonesia
- 6 Vatileaks: Hunt is on to find Vatican moles
- 7 In pictures: The bewildering face of China
- 8 Help me decide future of press, Leveson asks Blair
- 9 Fire at one of world's most luxurious malls leaves 13 children dead
- 10 Hague sent packing by Russia as Annan peace plan crumbles
- 1 Robert Fisk: Clinton's $33m raid on Pakistan shows that, in the end, hypocrisy will win
- 2 Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim
- 3 Robert Fisk: The West is horrified by children's slaughter now. Soon we'll forget
- 4 Sex in dressing rooms and Play School presenters 'stoned out of their minds' - inside BBC Television Centre
- 5 Fat? Really? Olympic hope laughs off official’s jibe – but others aren’t amused
- 6 Postgraduate students are being used as 'slave labour'
- 7 'Hello mum, this is going to be hard for you to read ...'
- 8 Coke reveals its secret: It may need to carry a cancer warning
- 9 French in uproar over oral sex anti-smoking posters
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