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For the most part, news and Friday leads the trending topics today... Wait no.. is that tween pop culture in the mix? From around 11:30 am to 12:30 pm #WeLoveGaga trended with the Olympics, Google Wave, David Letterman and Friday related verbiage. From 11:50 to 11:51 am 833 tweets with the hashtag came through. 100 pages of search.twitter.com resulted in only an hours worth of tweets. We were confused, why love Lady Gaga now? Why not at the VMAs when she sported five beyond haute couture outfits? Are fans just having a random surge of Lady Gaga passion?
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It really began with Sir. Perez Hilton’s twitter account. Perez has 1,510,756 followers and around 10:30 he tweeted…
From here gaga enthusiast groups GagaNews, Gagadaily, LadyGaGaPlease, gagatribe, and the houseofgaga all began encouraging retweeting and tweeting the hashtag. Soon Twitter exploded with Gaga fans and tweets. “Ironically” this trending and attention comes at a perfect time for Gaga. Gaga has had new stuff and bad luck lately…
- Her tour with Kanye West “Fame Kills” fell through today and Lady Gaga announced she will be going solo for a tour. While officially the tour was canceled due to “artistic differences”, rumors are circulating that ticket sales “sucked.”
- Gaga will be performing her new single “Bad Romance” for the first time on SNL tomorrow night.
Several of the fans who tweeted mentioned several times that the purpose of tweeting and RT was to get #WeLoveGaga onto the trending list. So, we will end with a question, Does it defeat the purpose of the trending list if people are hashtagging just to get it on the list?