Twitter index: OS X Mountain Lion, passengers stranded as Air Australia goes bankrupt
Apple released the developer preview of its next generation operating system (OS) for Macintosh, OS X Mountain Lion, and microbloggers are linking to articles and posting about new features.
“Want to try OS X Mountain Lion right now? All you have to do is hook a keyboard dock and mouse up to your iPad,” joke Tweeps. “Eh, Mountain Lion sounds good, but I'm waiting on the next version,OS X 'Nyan Cat.'”
Others tweet “I'm so excited for OS X Mountain Lion. Apple just GETS me sometimes. Messages + Notifications + Reminders = YES.”
Thousands of passengers are reportedly stranded after “budget airline Air Australia has gone into voluntary administration after just two months in operation, with all flights cancelled.”
Tweeps say that New York Times correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Shadid has died from an apparent asthma attack in Syria.
Russian speaking Twitterers are using first place hashtag “#ДавайПошлем” to suggest ways in which current problems in Russia can be solved.
Chris Brown started a torrent of music related tweets after he tweeted “Music is FREEDOM” while third place term “#HonestyNight” has got users sharing their honest feelings with their followers.
People are talking about Singapore’s 2012 budget with second place term “#SGBudget,” chatting about MTV show B2ST Almighty, and making up quotes from Mexican politician Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador with tenth place term “Dice AMLO” (“AMLO says”). Dragon Ball term “Super Saiyan” remains in sixth place in Twitter’s most talked about topics.
The top 10 most talked about topics on Twitter on February 17 at 7:30 AM GMT are:
#ДавайПошлем (new)
#SGBudget (new)
#HonestyNight (new)
MTV B2ST Almighty (new)
Music is FREEDOM (new)
Super Saiyan (unchanged)
OS X Mountain Lion (new)
Anthony Shadid (new)
Air Australia (new)
Dice AMLO (new)
