Data Reveals That “Occupying” Twitter Trending Topics is Harder Than it Looks! While the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has been gaining momentum, growing in terms of visibility, media coverage and sheer numbers of participants, it has had a difficult time “occupying” the Twitter trending topics (TTs) list. #OccupyWallStreet, the movement’s dominant hashtag, has never once hit the New York TTs list. Similarly, #OccupyBoston has trended all across the world, but never in Boston, which only saw the phrases ‘Dewey Sq’ and ‘Dewey Square’ trend. Some point the blame at Twitter for censoring content, yet what seems to be happening is purely algorithmic. There’s often more than meets the eye when it comes to algorithmically generated TTs. In this post we dissect some of the dynamics at play, looking at all OWS related terms that have trended on Twitter since the start of the movement, their volume of appearance in tweets, and the times and locations they’ve trended.
What’s in a Trend? Censorship? Interesting. #OccupyWallStreet – A closer look Competing for Attention. PEPPER SPRAYING COP. "God. I was just out trying to find a mini mart that was open past 10pm and ran into these friggin’ trigger happy lobsterbacks! Don’t shoot me because I get a hankering for Hostess fruit pies after hours. You know, if Boston wasn’t so stupid about everything shutting down at 10pm this would never be happeningAUUAHHAGGAGGAGAGHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" "I got back from the fortune teller and she was talking about how in the future stick men are going to fly around in cardboard boxes and talk through their minds. YEAH RIGHT. That sounds stupid, stupid enough that they’ll never even make a movie about itAUUAHAGAHAGAGAGHGHGHHHHHHHHHHH" "This corridor is ever so unpleasant.
"Dude, are you nuts? (1) Ed Webb (edwebb) Search - ucdavis. Pepper-spray cop works his way through art history - Arts Post. Posted at 09:13 AM ET, 11/21/2011 Nov 21, 2011 02:13 PM EST TheWashingtonPost Lt. John Pike, the U.C. On Friday, Pike casually pepper-sprayed protesters in a video that quickly went viral. Over the weekend, Pike’s visage popped up in Photoshopped into other scenes of languid passivity, such as Edouard Manet’s “Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe” (The Luncheon on the Grass) pictured above. Archibald Willard’s “The Spirit of ‘76” has a new addition. The images are a cheeky way of fighting back against what students say was an unwarranted use of forceful policing tactics. Online, the damage to his and the university’s reputations may already be done: Kennicott says the video will be among the defining imagery of the movement. Though it’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of the meme, the first viral image was Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.”
In a second photoshopped image, Pike appears in John Trumbull's famous painting, “Declaration of Independence.” Related: