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Shocking Bieber Upset: Oil Spill Tops Twitter's 2010 Trends

Liz Gannes in Social on December 13, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Although World Cup tweeting caused record high volume and infrastructure demands on Twitter, the most-discussed topic on Twitter this year was actually the Gulf oil spill, said the San Francisco-based company tonight.

Viral Video: 2010 As Told Through Google Products

Liz Gannes in Social on December 9, 2010 at 10:10 am PT

For 2010, Google dressed up its annual Zeitgeist list of fastest-rising search terms with nifty HTML5 data visualizations and a music video that sums up the year while demonstrating uses of all sorts of Google products.

Viral Video: "Twilight" Is Back Again (This Vampire Just Won't Die, Will It?)

Kara Swisher in News on March 12, 2010 at 2:21 am PT

The “Twilight” saga, which seems to have just ended with the release of the second film in the series, “New Moon,” in November, is baaaaack. And, of course, the Internet is huffing and puffing over this one, “Eclipse,” set for June, since its trailer just came out. Teenage girls may recommence their screaming.

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Twilight 3 Script for "Eclipse" Leaked to Internet

WSJ Staff in News on January 6, 2010 at 2:34 pm PT

If you’re wearing a Team Edward or Team Jacob T-shirt, this is probably old news, but a 112-page screenplay for “Eclipse”–the third installment of the Twilight franchise–has been leaked to the internet.

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Almost Famous: Michael Gregory of Auto-Tune the News

Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on December 18, 2009 at 11:25 pm PT

We went all the way to Brooklyn to visit with, ask some questions of and gather a few pertinent stats about Michael Gregory and Auto-Tune the News, the viral video series featuring mainstream news personalities and hip-hop style singing. No cute cats need apply.

YouTube’s Most Popular Clips: 10 Videos, a Lot of Music and Half a Billion Views

Peter Kafka in Media on December 16, 2009 at 4:46 am PT

Susan Boyle you know. But what about Pitbull and Keri Hinson?

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Bing's Take on Twitter Trends Differs From Twitter's

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 1, 2009 at 1:34 pm PT

What Bing says is a hot topic and what Twitter says is a trending topic are not necessarily the same thing, a look at the two services shows. Microsoft in October began showing tweets in Bing’s search results, calling it a way to make Bing more useful as a real-time search service (Google responded by announcing a similar deal).

Search Users Evidently Just a Bunch of Megan Fox-Ogling, WWE-Patronizing Nascar Fans

John Paczkowski in Social on December 1, 2009 at 9:31 am PT

If our search engine queries are, on some level, a reflection of who we are as a people, then we are a sorry, sorry lot indeed. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo all released their lists of the top search queries for 2009 today and they reveal us to be a nation of celebrity-obsessed, swine flu-suffering, vampire-loving, Megan Fox-ogling, Lady Gaga-humming, World Wrestling Entertainment-patronizing Nascar fans.

Viral Video: A "Twilight" Spoof With an Actual "Twilight" Star

Kara Swisher in News on November 29, 2009 at 10:49 pm PT

There has been plenty of online hay made over the latest of the “Twilight” movies, “New Moon,” which has turned out to be a blockbuster for Hollywood over the last two weekends, pulling in $474 million worldwide. What’s unusual about this spoof of the hit series, from “Attack of the Show,” is that it stars Peter Facinelli, who plays “Twilight” paterfamilias vampire Carlisle Cullen.

Beware Google: Bing Is Going to Suck Your Blood, Um, Market Share: The New Commercial

Kara Swisher in News on October 28, 2009 at 11:28 am PT

Here is a funny but decidedly creepy new commercial from Microsoft, in its ongoing marketing campaign to push its Bing search service. Titled “Vampire Decision Engine,” it is an effort by the software giant to tap into vampire mania, playing into Halloween and the next chapter in the “Twilight” movie series, “New Moon,” set to debut in November. Load up on garlic, Google!