Gossip and Tech Buzz: What People Are Talking about Online This Week
January 13, 2012 by Kathy Drasky
The only way you could have missed this week’s most talked about event online was if every connection to the Internet you had access to imploded. Music divas and/or moguls (you be the judge) Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed baby girl Blue Ivy Carter. Online pandemonium ensued.
This was mostly due to the fact that the star couple basically took over all of Manhattan’s Lenox Hill Hospital – we’re not talking just the maternity ward. The baby arrived Saturday. By Monday morning, headlines shouted out that her name was already transposed (it’s Blue Ivy, not Ivy Blue!), her parents were numerologist freaks obsessed with the number 4 (hey, isn’t “IV” four in Roman numerals?) and this child that has come from the union of music industry royalty was the biggest birth news since, um…Jesus, or at least Shiloh Jolie-Pitt.
Comedian Joan Rivers (JoanRivers) probably tweeted it best, “Beyonce said that she delivered her baby naturally, which for her meant no wind machine or backup dancers.”
Were people talking about anything else online this week? The hoopla around the arrival of Blue Ivy seemed to set a mood for using our devices to chatter about the trivial, from Rick Santorum’s sweater vests and Mitt Romney’s supposed career as a sinister businessman stock photo model to the Hostess bankruptcy filing (OMG! Are Twinkies really going out of business!?).
Last week’s viral video sensation, “Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls” got spoofed at least twice – with the inevitable “Shit Girls Say to Gay Guys” and the PR-correct “Stuff PR People Say”.
At the start of the week Denver Broncos’ quarterback Tim Tebow (@TimTebow) set a Twitter record when football fans tweeted his playoff overtime touchdown pass at a rate of 9,420 TPS (tweets per second).
No stats are in yet for tweets immediately following the birth little Miss Blue Ivy Carter but we’ll go out on a limb here and say she is the first baby born with a Klout score better than yours, mine or ours.
