Making sense of the good, bad and often strange trending topics online
Making sense of the good, bad and often strange trending topics online
Forty eight hours after he was murdered in cold blood, our colleague J Dey continued to evoke anger and outrage on Twitter. While journalists marched from Marathi Patrakar Sangh to Mantralaya, others chose to protest using 140 characters. In the words of Devansh Patel: 'I feel no smaller or bigger than the soldiers who guard our country. They have guns, but we have our voice. It's time we raised it.' Shawn Arranha had a valid question: 'Why should we feel scared to walk on our streets?'
The lady in whiteSimi Garewal received the dubious honour of becoming a trending topic following the launch of her new chat show. Going by feedback at the time of my writing this, it was not well received. Sample this: 'Is she India's answer to Oprah? Her blingy sets say yes, but her live audience and canned laughter scream Shekhar Suman.' Saurabh Kabra had this to say: 'She is so slow! Karan Johar can do two shows in the time she takes, and better.' And Pooja Shetty was upset for another reason: 'I missed the show,' she tweeted, 'now I have nothing to rant about.'
Life's a beachJuhu Beach became a surprise object of attention following reports of a ship, the SS Wisdom, being tranded on its shores. Faye Salins used this occurrence to point out how 'everyone in Mumbai is now moving North.'u00a0 Vinay Rao suggested that 'schools offer educational tours of the ship,' while Anu hoped, like many of us, its future wouldn't be 'like the ship River Princess in Goa, which has been stuck at Candolim beach for years.'
The last wordTired of Amitabh Bachchan? He has a message for you: 'When naysayers abuse me and tell me to stop work because they say I am too old and forgotten, I tell themu00a0-- not yet! Not satisfied!'
