On any given day you can log on to Twitter and see any number of trending topics: #musicmonday, #dontyouhateitwhen, #howtheheckdoesgooglewavework and so on. But pretty much any time you log on, you're pretty much guaranteed to see one name in there, one person who never strays from the random thoughts of the millions of tweeters worldwide: Justin Bieber.
According to The Canadian Press (which is like the Associated Press ... except it's Canadian), Justin Bieber was the most tweeted about topic on the social networking/microblogging platform last week. And if that weren't enough, the "Baby" singer has been catching up with Twitter all-stars such as President Barack Obama and the (sadly) even more popular Ashton Kutcher in terms of followers, accruing 11,000 more per day on average.
According to Ingo Muschenetz of the Web traffic site What The Trend, even Bieber's detractors help him tighten his grip on the the collective-tweeting consciousness, "The haters ... tweet about the fact that he's trending, which only makes him trend higher." Catch-22, that hating business.
Still, not everyone has fallen under the Bieb's magical spell. Lily Allen recently tweeted, "i had no idea who this #justinbieber person was, just found out he's that kid that's always on the tv when im in the gym. he's about 5 right?" But she still tweeted about him! Even oblivious Brit pop stars can't help perpetuating Bieber's inevitable Twitter takeover. I, for one, welcome our new teen-pop overlord. The zeal of Justin Bieber fans (or, Bielibers) on Twitter is far more fun to watch than #thingscheaterssay.