i believe i can fly

oh dear. the twitter trend spells his name "micheal jackson."

17,000+ tweets in about 3 minutes

twitter fixed the misspelling i think. that was nice of them.

oh shit mj totally knocked #iranelection off the trends

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From Spokane to Tehran same color sky same color balloon #iranelection

via StopAhmadi

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Paris 26/6/2009 soutien au peuple iranien 06/26/2009 Paris support to the Iranian People #iranelection

yay #iranelection making the best of the mj news capture with this video photo montage set to "beat it"

lyrics are perfect.

recommended watching at least through first chorus. don't watch past 0:54 if you don't want to see injured protesters. never gets too terrible though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvOx4avw8WY

i like this editorial by the daughter of the azadi monument architect, it's just plain nice.

http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/4051

"hacktivism"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090627/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_hack_backlash

trending topic: TIM HOWARD

guess he's doing a bang-up job and good for him

every1's favorite GK w/ tourette's

whoa, check it:

* BET Awards
* Beyonce
* Ne-Yo
* Mary Mary
* BBD
* Keith Sweat
* Jamie Foxx
* Tiny
* TOYA
* True Blood

keith sweat straight trendin'

http://twitter.com/ApolloPlus40

"Nature News twitters the Apollo 11 moon mission as it happened -- 40 years on"

LOL:

Location The Moon

neat:

http://www.mightierthan.com/2009/07/rooftop/

i kind of hate trending topics now

wait why

cuz lots of people tweet trending topics just so they get their names on the list. they don't even say anything, just #trendingtopic1 #trendingtopic2, etc.

also the topics are mostly really dumb, like "poor joe jonas cried on stage cuz camilla broke up wit him"

don't mean to be a twitter snob. i just like it so much better when it's interesting, and not just about boring celebrities.

but you love that jonas brother

oh it was THAT brother? well then never mind.

lxy that #camilla is such a cruel bitch how dare she do that to poor #joe?! 28 seconds ago from web

don't know if this is any better but
http://tweetmeme.com/

COUNT Kid Rock out as a fan of Twitter. "It's gay. If one more person asks me if I have a Twitter, I'm going to tell them, 'Twitter this shit, motherfucker,' " the shaggy-haired rocker tells Rolling Stone. "I don't have anything to say, and what I have to say is not that relevant. Anything that is relevant, I'm going to bottle it up and then squeeze it onto a record somewhere."

Something is technically wrong.
Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.

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u broke it

no, some boring, irrelevant thing going on in the entertainment world broke it

lol #chrisbrownsbowtie

first time i've heard the song since the thread and omg is it terrible

@occupiedcairo

@riverdryfilm
@monasosh
@ellozy

now following those, and also

@AJEnglish
@alaa

easier than having 6 extra tabs open ;)

@monasosh is a good one, she's been in tahrir, along with her mother and brother (@alaa) (and lots of other people), since i don't know when... yesterday at least. her dad was arrested yesterday, they don't know where he is but believe he's safe.

she's very upbeat, posts crowd pics that give a good sense of how many people are there.

told a funny story about helping a stranger who'd been injured by a thrown rock; he commented on her chin injury/stitches; she confessed she'd fallen down at work the previous day; lols all around.

<3 @monasosh: Seems like ppl don't believe we actually took over the parlimant st,they can't stop offering us food & blankets. Hehe revolution spa

ps for the record: her dad was released several days ago :)

Ghonim Wael Ghonim
Support the Egyptian Economy: Fly Egypt Air #Jan25

RiverDryFilm Omar Robert Hamilton
Egypt shakes off entrenched dictator and Tottenham beat Milan at the San Siro! What else lies around the corner?! #egypt #jan25

this guy set up some lists to follow on-site action

@ThomasMeadia/live-from-bahrain
@ThomasMeadia/inside-yemen
@ThomasMeadia/lybia-eyewitnesses
@ThomasMeadia/newegypt

smart.

bahrain is breaking my heart today

lol naseem!

naseemfaqihi Naseem Faqihi
Hot flashes in the middle of crowded restaurants are great fun, esp when accompanied by comments such as "wow, you look really turned on"

funny tweet

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Tell Muammar and his kids, in Libya there are Men (rhymes in Arabic) #Libya *Feb17

trending lol:

yOsTiN BiVeR

<3 this, following UN voting for NFZ over libya

مبروووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووك

wonder what it says. i imagine something like yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. hope so.

incidentally:

the vote was 10-0 in favor, with 5 abstentions.

resolution 1973.

if you c/p arabic into an ilx page, you have to put the cursor at the left-most end of the line to get to the next line. funny!

this is a good reminder that the tweeters in libya (and elsewhere) are young people with the same concerns as all young people:

mouita Mz
Dear news channels, PLZ stop mentioning Twitter/FB all day. If another member of the old generation in my big family joins Twitter, I'm out!

weird how much tha language of sport sounds like the language of war:

AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
Ruthless Pakistan fire into semis: Pakistan bowl out West Indies for just 112 before Hafeez and Akmal knock off ... http://aje.me/dFtbnC

haaa:

Libyan4life Jeel Ghathub
by ShababLibya
There is a hair in my pasta #ItsAlQaeda !!

twitter. it teaches.

birmania = birmanie = burma

tailandia = thailand

(remember in cologne when we kept seeing maitland and you figured out it meant milan? you smart!)

bzzzz.