A couple of years back one of the few TV shows I watch, The Voice began, occasionally, telling me that such and such a contestant or such and such a judge was trending on Twitter. Though I have a Twitter account, I have not even signed into it more than a few times. So these little mentions of what was trending would pull me out of my escapist mindset and would make me start thinking exactly that.... I never sign into my Twitter account because I don't care what's trending and what isn't...

In fact my ONLY "tweet" ever was something to the effect of "Do eighty million people really need to know what Ashton Kutcher ate for lunch???"

This past Monday night I chose to partake in a rare enjoyment of mine. I watched professional wresting on cable. The first or second time I've done so since having access to cable again - after a four year period of not having it. And I realized that not five minutes would pass without some announcer or graphic popping up to let me know what was freaking trending! It really irked me and ruined my enjoyment of the show. It kept pulling me OUT of the experience.

So, just now, I wanted to research a post I was contemplating making, to fact check something, so I opened a new tab, arbitrarily chose Bing as a search engine for my query, typed in what I wished, pushed enter, and began reading my results... only I immediately began to be bothered by a large bar on the right of my screen that I don't recall seeing ( or noticing ) before. And what did it say???

NOW TRENDING!

Now C'MON!!!!!!!!!!! I am sure that some dude made two hundred gazillion bucks for creating Twitter. And good for him. And I know that there are a LOT of people who just love to "tweet" every eighteen seconds so that they can feel like they are celebrities in their own little worlds. Hell, I was a prominent blogger once upon a time and I know my ego got stoked as I watched my hit count rise. But, for the love of Pete, BING wasn't using 1/3 of their page space to tell the entire 'Net that I'd blogged! Katie Couric never broke out of a news story to say "Trending... Heff (or any of you either) just posted a thread to ATS!

Twitter is a place to tell people what mundane thing you just did. So why are words like "bathroom" "food" and "bored" not trending??? Huh??????? I say "Kim Kardashian" maybe once every three months. I eat, sleep, use the bathroom, and get bored way more often than that. So why is KK nearly always trending????

If you love Twitter? Awesome! God love ya. I don't spite you one bit. I don't even spite Twitter itself. It's a genius idea of how to turn some simple code into a vast fortune. But does every single friggin' media entity in the entire known universe really have to update me on what's trending every five seconds???

Am I the ONLY one who has just had it up to ~here~ with the whole trending thing?

Now if you really want to put me into the looney bin, get half a billion people to tweet to this link to this thread - which will make ME trend. Then, when the guy on TV says "BTW, Hefficide is trending on Twitter" I promise you, I will fall into a fetal ball and never get back up.

~Heff

It's on every news broadcast, I occasionally watch a little bit of wrestling on Monday nights, maybe 15-20 mins. and they plaster all over the screen whats trending a dozen times, Sportscenter has gotten into this dirty little habit as well...It's friggin' everywhere man. Any type of tech show you watch it's trending this and trending that..I'm very tempted to create a twit account to tell all these hipster trenders to shut the frig up

Since it's a Saturday morning ( at least where I am at ) and ATS is slow... I started goofing around on the web and found out this about @Hefficide....



An open message to whoever owns Twitter.... If you can get that number up by about thirty or forty thousand without me having to actually log in to my Twitter account... I may consider posting a rebuttal thread to this one, talking about how much I LOVE being inundated by "what's trending now" messages.....

Just sayin'.

~Heff

I agrre, but its one more reason i dont own a tv. Also, im sick of hearing what celebrities are doing. Every time i listen to a top40 station some ho has to tell me all this bs about whos doing who. Why do i care? And top 40 sucks. But every 3 months or so they end up with a cool new song. Sometimes 90s alternative gets old

I think one day the "twenty teens" is going to be remembered as the worst decade ever. Like how i remember the 90s. Back then we had the pentium! You know what the pentium meant to normal people? That we could finally afford a 486. And 386s dont compare at all to a 486, whereas a pentium and a 486 isnt that different. Big difference from 16mhz 75mhz lol. The 586 was what? 133mhz? Now i have a 2ghz pc in my pocket (android). Wtf? but now we have bs like trending....ugh

its a fact that most entertainers are nwo tools and bound to the illuminati for their fame and fortune.

so wouldn't it make sense for them that a powerful tool that can reach millions be purposely sabotaged with useless tweets and self promotion.

imagine someone with 20 million "followers" telling them to register to vote for ron paul instead of checking out going to www. whatever to get a chance to win some lame prize.

don't forget how twitter became mainstream. when the biggest douchebag in hollywood, ashton kutcher challenged larry king to a twitter follower contest.

who can reach a million first.

tell me that both of them weren't paid massive amounts of money or stock to promote it.

after that every moron with an internet connection jumped on the bandwagon and started signing off with their twitter handle.

I do not like the trending thing...and I do find it annoying. A very few times I have clicked on a topic to find out what is so important; and it is usually something very boring; like (a famous so and so person) had a milkshake at McDonalds; just ridiculous stuff! I simply do not care. So...anyway I stopped reading anything that is trending.

Heff nailed twitter to the wall... when you look at their "trending" topic, you have to wonder how some stupid hashtag becomes more important than a global issue.

It seems that there are two tiers to twitter.. The people who get the blue checkmarks, and the rest of the population. I'm not sure what the criteria is for the blue checkmarks, but these are the hollywood types who *someone* thinks are important people. If you look at the content of these important people, you will see their agenda is mostly self-promotion, or promotion of some sponsor. The top tier of twitter users have like millions of followers, and the other tier of users have followers in the hundreds. You can sort of tell to whom twitter caters, and what they promote.

I wonder why facebook didn't just gobble up twitter right off the bat as being a social media tool. That said, twitter by itself is a really boring place to be. My g/f says there is entertainment value in twitter, but I just can't see it.
Someone on TV just said "Instagram" is twitter for people who can't read... Haha think about it. Just how they made money off these applications defies logic, however the motives of these companies is becoming apparent to the masses, and it's getting stale.

---

---

Ah, the sweet irony... I write serious threads and I am called a disinfo manipulation expert with an evil agenda. I write comical threads about Twitter, point out that I've only logged in a handful of times, and even show that my Twitter page is so pointless and useless that it's worth ONE dollar... And now I am an egomaniac.

I wonder what attacks I'll get if I post in the food forum?

The other, real irony? I stopped posting in the political forums to keep OUT of trouble.

Some peoples children....

~Heff

#Trendingmeansbeingspammed lol