Twitter’s Top Trending Topics of the Week: Jar Jar, Ophiuchus, and More
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Ah, Saturday. A day to relax and recuperate from a long, hard week. Kick up your feet, relax, and make sure you’re up to date with all of the news and gossip that was trending on Twitter this week. To help you, we took a look at the most-buzzed-about trends and picked 10 you may have missed this week.
US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot in Tucson, Arizona last Saturday by suspected gunman Jared Lee Loughner. The rampage killed 6 and wounded 13. Giffords is still in critical condition, recovering from a bullet wound to the brain. In the aftermath, many individuals and news organizations placed the blame for the violence at what they saw as overheated political rhetoric, particularly from the right, though there is no evidence yet that caused Loughner’s actions. The person facing the most criticism was former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who had distributed a map during the recent midterm election with crosshairs (later termed “surveyor’s marks”) over Democratic districts, including Giffords.
#Gabrielle Giffords, #Jared Lee Loughner
“Alay” style is ‘a form of the Indonesian language that has undergone “excessive leet transformation”. Contrary to the popular belief that it is “destroying” the national language, grammatical standards are met in contrast to the modern Indonesian slang language. Similar to the jejebets, alay texts offer an alternative in compressing words so that they are under the 160 character-limit in text messages, often to the point that they are impossible to read. Rules in capitalization are mostly ignored.'”
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