26 August,2011 08:03 AM IST | | Lindsay Pereira
Making sense of the good, bad and often strange trending topics online
Steve Jobs became a trending topic after stepping down as CEO of Apple.
Most tweets echoed this one, by someone with the handle Double Select: 'Thanks for making everyday computing with design aesthetics in mind. It would be so dull and boring without you.'
Ben Reardon asked: 'How many of us learned of his resignation on a device he envisioned?' Helen Grounds imagined 'all Apple product owners lighting up their iPads/ iPhones/ iPods and holding them up high when it's dark.'
And Marcos Placona put things into perspective: 'People are talking about Jobs as if he were dead. He's only been slightly demoted, and by his own choice. That is all.'
Out-Standing Committee
'If our elected representatives won their elections fair and square, Amar Singh wouldn't be trending today, would he?'
That, from Khushboo Bhatia, came in the wake of former SP general secretary Amar Singh being charged in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam.
Vinay Talwar had this question for the Prime Minister: 'With Lalu Yadav, Amar Singh and Paswan in the Standing Committee, do you expect a strong Lokpal Bill?' A certain Prabhat Handoo was annoyed for other reasons: 'This is not done. Amar Singh trending and Bipasha Basu isn't. Outrage! Male dominated society!'
What's for dinner?
A significant number of people decided to rewrite titles for movies by relating them to food.
Some of the more amusing results included 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Pizzas', 'Ten Things I Hate About Stew', 'The Fridge on the River Kwai', 'Frying Nemo' and 'Lord of the Onion Rings.'
The last word
An interesting observation from filmmaker and actor Rajat Kapoor: 'It's funny when people who are fighting for their voices to be heard won't let you speak if you don't agree with them.'
Lindsay Pereira is Editor, MiD DAY Online (twitter.com/lindsaypereira)
