Top 10 Twitter Trends of 2010

Did you know that Twitter turned 5 years old last week?
Happy Birthday, Twitter!

Do you use Twitter?
I do. 
Do you not understand why anyone would want to use Twitter?
This video is very illuminating for those who don't "get it."

25 billion Tweets were sent in 2010.  
I bet we'll be WAY over that for 2011. 
Especially since, according the Twitter Blog, the world now tweets 1 billion tweets per week!  

Want to see the top ten trends for last year?  Some I expected, some I didn't. 


10. Pulpo Paul - the Octopus who perdicted FIFA World Cup wins
9. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows - The final Harry Potter book
8. Justin Bieber - Teenage Canadian pop singer with a famus hairdo

7. Google Android - New Google Phone
6. Apple iPad - New Apple Product
5. Vuvuzela - a plastic horn used to make noise, especally at the FIFA World Cup

4. Haiti Earthquake - Catastrophic earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 in Haiti
3. Inception - A Leo DiCaprio movie about a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion
2. FIFA World Cup - Football World Cup (soccer) won by Spain in 2010
1. Gulf Oil Spill - Deepwater Horizon oil drill spilled oil into the Gulf of Mexico for three months




I can already guess some of the top trends for this year:

Charlie Sheen
Libya
Japan Earthquake/Tsunami or Nurclear Crisis



What do you think?
Do you tweet?

Strange things I've learned while on Twitter

I'm on Twitter a lot more now than I used to be.

(I'm TexasRhea)

Why?

Because I am helping the companies I work for Tweet:

United Credit Source

Total Score Repair

Elite Debt Management

And I've started "following" some interesting Twitterers.

NASA - I followed their recent Atlantis Shuttle mission to the Space Station and then it's landing.

I learned from ZAPPOS CEO Tony Hsieh that "Did u know if u put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will go up&down continuously? This has been our entertainment tonight."

I learned about Mystery Google, where you get what the person before you was searching for.

Cue scary, laughing manequin!

Have you learned anything interesting on Twitter?

Do you follow anyone famous?  Or infamous?

Operation Bird Noise

The company I work for has fastened their helmets, strapped on knee pads, secured their parachutes and is launching head first into social media.

This means blogging.

This means Facebook.

This means Twitter.

And guess who gets to help?!

Your favorite pink-hatted Texas blogger!!

So, please, please, please, come follow me on Twitter as I now write under three names, different Tweets for each:

TexasRhea

UnitedCreditSrc

EliteDebtMgmt

I promise, I'll be entertaining and make you laugh.

or have you scratching your head in disbelief.

Twitter

One lone male hummingbird -- master of all he surveys.




















But before he can settle down to enjoy himself -- here comes another hummer and the first guy feels obligated to defend the nectar -- no matter that there are four feeding holes and a lady in the kitchen ready to refill the feeder -- it's a point of honor!

These tiny birds buzz and twitter and perform spectacular aerial maneuvers -- only now and then managing to get a sip of sugar water.

I took these pictures a few days ago and was reminded of them last night when a heated discussion broke out after dinner about Twitter -- yes, the social networking kind. I don't know much about Twitter -- don't tweet and don't follow anyone else's twittering. So I didn't feel capable of weighing in on the subject under discussion -- which, if I followed it, was something like "Email and Twitter and other social networking modes, all of which place a premium on brevity, are rapidly destroying their users' ability to engage in detailed and abstract reasoning."

Or not. Twitter's role in getting the news out of Iran and in enabling dissidents to come together was referenced. Haiku were mentioned too -- an art form in which brevity is like the distillation of ideas. A case was made that many people are communicating now who otherwise would not.

I don't know how the discussion ended. It got too loud for me and I went upstairs to check my email.

What do you think? Is all this communication a good thing? Any down sides? (Of course, the fact that you're here reading this suggests a certain bias in favor of the Internet.)

Twitter me this

Twitter. It was a name I'd heard mentioned a lot on the web. I didn't know what exactly was involved, but I figured it was something that would take up even more of my time that I already wasted away blogging. So I avoided it...and watched fellow bloggers drop like ducks in a row into the Twittering world.

However, I didn't want technology to pass me by, so I figured I should at least peek at it. I didn't have to stay and play. No one could make me.

Turns out, I like it...and it takes very little of my time.

TexasRhea is my handle over there. So follow me if you're up for it. You can decide who reads your tweets and whose tweets you want to read. And, tweets have to be short, so you have to make what you say count. It's fun!

Here are some examples of my twittering (tweets?) over the last day or two (oh, yeah, to make sense, you have to read from the bottom to the top. Weird, I know):



wait...takes two weeks for flu shot to take effect...so probably best NOT to TAUNT flu virus for the next two weeks.

I got a flu shot today. Yeah, in your face FLU VIRUS. Take that.

Annie puts up with more of our craziness!!

When pigs fly, right?

$20 says if I lock the dog in the car for 10 minutes, she'll find and eat whatever is causing the stink. Any takers?

It could be the sweaty football gear...or the dog...but I'm thinking something spilled in the back.

My car has taken on an odd smell...and I'm scared to find out why.

Happy Birthday, Jen & Shannon!! You girls ROCK!

Next time 11 yr old son informs me AT BEDTIME that he has to have Styrofoam & wheels, I'm going to make him WALK to the craft store...Alone

@insanemama Hey, I think we're looking at the SAME moon! NO way. hehe

I'm horrified. My mom's dog has apparently taught my dog to drink out of toilets.

and the only cure is MORE COW BELL!

I think I might have blogitis. An infection that makes me blog...

my elderly father smacks gum like there's no tomorrow. I can't take it...

SITS blogathon today! Prizes every hour! Check it out! Anyone can win!! http://thesecretisinthesauc...

Sometimes dogs don't eat their own throw up...and that's when things get messy.

It's official. I'm lemon-drop sick.

I think the squirrels are playing soccer with pecans on my roof.

kids' heads re-grow, like lizards' tails

Finished reading The Hunger Games. Really great!


So, what about you? Are you on TWITTER? Should I be following YOU? Are my tweets weird? or funny? Or am I just talking to myself these days?

Chicka Chicka Bow Wow

Why don't animals dance?

They can hear the music.
But they don't seem to get the urge to bob their head
or shake their hindquarters?

I twittered about it, but no one answered me.


Oh, yeah, did I tell you I'm twittering now?
Or tweeting?
Or whatever you call it?

I'm TexasRhea if you want to follow me.


So, yesterday I found out that like NO ONE knows how to play chess!
I was dumbfounded.
That's such a strange word.
I like it.
Dumbfounded.

Anyway, I think I need to start an online class to teach EVERYONE how to play.
Chess rocks, people!

And, oh yeah, I'm giving away a book.
Normally I take photos of my kids drawing names out of a hat...
But this time I'm lazy, and I used the random number thingy.

So, the winner is...

Jenboglass!


She won this book:

This has been a tough week for me.
I didn't get the job I wanted, so I'm still job searching.
We've had lots of football practice and soccer practice
and some family drum workshop...don't ask.

Now my mother-in-law is visiting for the weekend,
which means I might go on a date with my husband,
which hasn't happened in months.

My creativity collapsed, and I didn't know what to write about today.

And, that's why you got this instead.

Saturday both boys have 8am sports games,
and I have a 6-hour long writing workshop...

And, I have nothing planned for Sunday,
besides driving my dad to church
and helping my eleven-year-old with two projects due Monday.

How was YOUR week?
Why don't animals dance?
Do you Twitter?

What are your plans for the weekend?