Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
How certain things make "trending topics" on Twitter also baffle me. For a while there Justin Beiber was there every day ... why?

I don't mind when people I have never heard of are "trending topics" - as they are sometimes political figures from countries I don't know a lot about, or sports I don't follow, but when a pop singer gets months worth of attention for apparently, well, existing ...

I suspect their Public Relations people feed that stuff to the "news" folks.
Some people eat that stuff up. Whatever.

Check out any regular news website, how many non-news items can be found taking up space there?