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Current Twitter trends: Follow Friday, Justin Bieber, Into the Wild tour

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Friday 19 February 2010 01:00 GMT
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(AFP PHOTO DDP/ HENNING KAISER)

It's Follow Friday in the microblogging world on Friday, February 19. Users are busy recommending influential Twitter users to their followers driving the hashtags "FF" and "FollowFriday" into the top of Twitter's trending topics list.

"#FF" (short for Follow Friday) is in the number-one spot while the longer "#Follow Friday" comes in at number three.

The term "#nowplaying" has dropped one place overnight and is now sitting comfortably in the second position.

Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber is a hotly talked about topic on Twitter on Friday. An official video clip of his lead single, "Baby" hit the internet on February 19 and people on Twitter can't get enough of it.

Fans of the video are writing, "I can't stop watching the #babymusicvideo it's sooo amazing!" and "so maybe I went a little crazy watching Justin Bieber videos!"

American rock band 30 Seconds To Mars are also a hot topic of discussion on the microblogging site February 19. People on Twitter are talking about their upcoming 'Into The Wild' tour which kicks off on February 19 in the UK.

The top 10 most talked about topics on Twitter on February 19 at 9:30 AM GMT are:

1. #FF (new)
2. #nowplaying (-1)
3. #FollowFriday (new)
4. #babymusicvideo (new)
5. #youvebeenshittedon (new)
6. #DontJudgeMe (new)
7. #isitme (new)
8. Justin Bieber (+1)
9. #intothewildtour (new)
10. Haiti (new)

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