The Sky News piece from this morning showing the 1st images of the scene of Oscar Pistorius’s home after the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp shot to the top of the Twitter lists and stayed there all day. While there was a fair bit of debate about if the images should have been published and where it may have come from. By the end of today the consensus was that it is unlikely to have a material impact on the trial. - bit.ly/17E7S0u Following the speech about the economy yesterday and the drop in the rand/dollar President #Zuma was trending. He also announced today that he was dropping all defamation cases that he had instituted over the last few years. The Rand was trending on its own, but mostly to track whether it would do better or worse than yesterday. The trade balance figures were released today which showed a trade deficit bigger than expected weakening the Rand further. Luiz Suarez is deciding if he will remain at Liverpool or move to Real Madrid, Liverpool says he is not going, Suarez says he wants to go, but so far nothing looks final. One tweet from a Liverpool fan that is hoping Suarez decides to leave said, “He cheats, He dives, He’ll eat your hands and thighs, Luis Suarez, Luis Suarez” Generations trends regularly typically because of a development with the plot, but it was trending today in anticipation of Samuel L Jackson appearing in tonight’s episode. - bit.ly/15jVkqJ And Comrades started it climb up the trend charts ahead of the up run this weekend. Finally the question for Cape Town which is expecting a large cold front to engulf this City this weekend is whether the trending term this weekend will be “The Storm” or the “Stormers”
Posted on: Fri, 31 May 2013 15:40:19 +0000