Patrick Swayze Dead at 57, or Not?

Does the list of Trending Keywords hurt or devalue Twitter overall?

Twitter has became the ultimate game of “telephone”.  Now that Twitter has redesigned user’s homepages with a toplist of trending topics spammers and misfits are immediately able to figure out how to target massive amounts of users. The resulting pyroclastic flow of posts on almost all new trending topic is overwhelming. If the news is true, it’s amazing that twitter users broke the news 10+ minutes before it was carried anywhere else.

Twitter is being flooded with headlines such as:

“Florida-based radio station KissFM reports that Patrick Swayze has reportedly died. BNO News is working to get more info”

and

“Link doesn’t work for me, so can’t confirm, but might be for real: RT @1txsage1957Patrick Swayze is dead at 57 http://bit.ly/BFcY4…(visit external link) ”

I hope these posts are not true for Patrick’s sake,  but in many ways I hope they are true for Twitter’s Reputation.  We will know soon.

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One Response to “Patrick Swayze Dead at 57, or Not?”

1. Aadil Pitafi says:

   May 22, 2009 at 3:31 pm

   That link works for me. Here’s the original URL if it’s still not working for you: http://www.bitchpleaz.com/2009/05/19/patrick-swayze-is-not-dead-at-57/
   But it says that Patrick is not dead. Strange.