3D and the PS3

Hi Fogies, we have been absent recently, life just takes over doesn't it. However, we could not let our little discovery pass you by. As we said we are Fogies so we are sometimes a little behind the times but that is the definition of Fogies. We have just embraced gaming, I received a PS3 for my birthday. I must say for those of you out there who feel too old to take up this hobby, man, we recommend it. The world of gaming has come on leaps and bounds since Pac Man and Space Invaders. Now gaming takes you into a virtual world and the graphics are amazing, the world of gaming is trying to reach film quality entertainment levels. I give you, as an example. Assassins Creed by UBIsoft.

Also, I now have a Smart TV. This TV can link to the web, has freesat or freeview, wifi and in our view most importantly of all is 3D. Now I know a lot of you are not sure about 3D. We are not talking red and green glasses here, although glasses are required. Anyhow, get down to your local store and check out the quality of 3D TV, we think it is better than the cinema frankly and have been amazed by it. We watched New Avengers 3D Blue-ray and felt we were actually in the movie. It is rather strange, almost as if watching a play.

Now this is where the bit of info comes in. The PS3, you may not know was re launched in September  in a new model which automatically plays 3D blue-ray and has other additions and is slim line. However, old models of the PS3 can be upgraded with firmware to play 3D so there is no need to get a new model if you already have a PS3. Great eh! Although 3D gaming is now apparently not big right now, we think that multi dimensional media in some form is a thing of the future and sooner or later it will be a standard option for viewing or gaming and personally we are big fans of it.


We found this facinating article from Eurogamer on the issue http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-29-sony-on-the-new-ps3-vita-sales-the-decline-of-3d-and-the-threat-of-the-wii-u

Hoxton Kirby a Cusworth and Kaelly Novel

A bit of bite in tonight?

See icon or buy above to go straight to Amazon.

Retweeters helped our successful July

Ran a really exciting campaign on Nightingale Vale our pulpy killer thriller, if slightly short lived. Our recent free download resulted in our most successful sales yet for frees nearly 4,000 downloads resulting in a flurry of activity making us peak at 82 in the Top 100 for psychological thrillers in the States and resulting in a torrent of sales. This is interesting on a lot of levels. What made the campaign so successful, can it be repeated and how can we try to maintain the momentum. We would welcome the views of any authors who have run a similar campaign to see if there is a common theme that would enable the success to be maintained. We shall see. We are convinced that twitter friends had a big influence and the fact that our download got picked up by a facebook site called Books Direct. However, there is an element of mystery in why a download should suddenly just take off. We think what made the campaign work was an early mid week posting and not targeting the beginning or end of the month. one of the advantages was a surge in Amazon Prime downloads rhat pay quite reasonable royalties. Two hundred flew off the shelves in the first few days and then slowed to a steady flow only tailing off in the latter part of this month. We we got over three weeks of exposure and still have mot dropped to below 100,000 in Amazln US which is a respectible level. all the while we cross tweeted and picked up loads of retweets. pur exposure on Amazln can at times exceed 10,000 people. We have yet to be picked up by some of the big tweeters who have say over 50 thousand followers, but we find that they are mostly sporting or TV celebrities. Perhaps we need a cross you tube account. always interested in others experiences in this area.

Ain't no corned beef #hash

Hi fogeys you will see below our post on Hashtags. For those out there who do not know what they are the article will be a treat. As we are writers however we decided to have a go at trending two hashtags to bring readers and authors together #teamwriter and #teamreader. Once you know what a hashtag is, you will realise that it is a powerful way to connect people. To use a hashtag you simply search the tag and it should in theory help you to connect people together by finding people also using the tag. So for example you might see #teamfollowback #teamblueeyes #teamprettygirls etc etc. You get the general idea. The idea is the # allows you to tag eachother and grow the # thus connecting people together who are interested in connecting. So if anyone is interested let us see if we can grow #teamwriter and #teamreader so we can find more like us. Remember the whole idea is to connect on a genuine front. sure we are promoting work etc but we also love the human interaction and connection and first and formost that is what it is all about. We just cant get enough of twitter. Declan and Belle also love to hear from people all over the world so happy to hear from you. In particular #shoutout to #SouthLondoners is that another possible tag. Who knew? Just so you know it works,at least 10 new people follow us per day and that is over 100 per week and that is a low average without us doing anything at all. So more when we are connecting with tweeters. We would also like to thank Toby Neal who wrote the book Building an Author Platform that can launch Anything, who is an inspiration and who has piloted some wonderful ideas of how to use twitter. Dont forget our books can be bought from the icons at the side of this post if you would like to check out our work.

Twittermenot?

Ran another ostensibly successful campaign on twitter selling around 200 Hoxton Kirby's on a free download. Unfortunately did not pip the charts so visibility probably not enhanced. That'll teach me I probably should have run the campaign for 2 - 3 days to pip,into the charts. This may be a useful lesson for those of us trying to push tricky genre. (ie vampire whodunnit) In order to get this level of download which is three times as great as I have ever had on this novel, I routinely tweeted the hashtags #freebie #free #giveaway and also ensured I got listed in book promotion sites. On this occasion ebookdealsukhttps://www.facebook.com/EbookDealoftheDayUK who tweeted me and also I tweeted their site referencing my book and obviously facebooked them and gave them general exposure to other social networks. Watch this space I will tell you whether this converts into sales. Hoxton Kirby Vampire Investigators can by purchased for 99c/p on the icon to the side of you. Belle Marsh. Our KDP experience with Nightingale Vale below enhanced out sales this month and popped us back from a recent slide.

@EQUALMAN this guy seems to know a thing or two.

SOCIALNOMICS BY ERIK QUALMAN THIS VIDEO SAYS EVERYTHING WE WOULD WANT TO SAY BUT ARE NOT CLEVER ENOUGH. WAKE UP TO THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION IT IS HERE TO STAY. WE WISH WE WERE THIS GUY. So if you're trying to say something or promote something and it isn't getting out there, think about it!

Just before you check out our twitter tips check our Freebie 14th June, Belle Marsh's vampire whodunnnit. Click on icon to the side to go to Amazon. Take a look. Now read on. Thanks.

HASH NOT THE ILLEGAL KIND THE TAG KIND

OK the big trendy issue on Twitter is hashtags what are they? A hash tag is any word prefixed with the hash key #, so for example #twitter.

It is used to enable the user to locate words of interest via the search facility or simply because it flags up to other interested users. As an author there are some essential tags you will want to know about.

My list of useful tages are #thriller
#mystery
#romance
#promo
#free #kindle
#amazon
#ebooks
#followFriday
#FF
#followback
#freebie
#giveaway #goodreads
#thrillerthursday
#summerreads
#wordmongering

These are highly general. Experiment with what works for you and don't be afraid to invent your own they may catch on.

One way to see if a tag is popular is to plug it into the search facility and see how many references come up.

One good tip is to watch trending hashtags and see if they link to your interests, then use them. 

There is a sort of form of use, namely not to overuse hashtags in one post, frankly though I would say that currently hashtags are definitely a way to increase reach and currently I probably overuse them a bit.

Moreover, specilist hashtags can link you to a TRIBE and therefore put you in touch with people who may be interested in re tweeting you so, for example. I belong to World Literary Cafe and Writers unite and we have hashtags that flag us to other members, so forexample with @Writers_Unite I may hashtag #wupromo which tells other members I am promoting and they will likely retweetmme.

It is up to you to research your own helpful hashtags as they are highly individual.

Now I am not teaching my grandmother to suck eggs when I say that old mantra in order to get the most out of Twitter you need committed and many followers 1,000 minimum to even begin to make any impact. So if hashtags are not working for you it is probably because you have a. no followers, b. followers who are not interacting, c. are following far more people than you are followed by.

For example, one twitterer was following 400 peeps but only had about 50 followers that is entirely the wrong way round. Ideally you need your followers and following to be about even or even more ideally loads following you and far less that you are following.

So keep at it fogies and remember we are always here to help.

Our books can be bought on the icons at the side with the big hand or marked Hoxton Kirby. @DeclanMunro and Belle Marsh.

International Twit who knew?

Just to give some of our fogies the heads up on how to get an idea of your international reach. YOU MAY BE SURPRISED. We simply did a Google search of our names Declan Munro and Belle Marsh. We went through a deep search up to about 30 on the searches at the bottom of the Google page. Now we discovered a lot of entries that were,unexpexted such as that we are listed on Google Japan, or Barnes Nobel and a variety of other more obscure book shops etc in Sweden, Germany and other places. Now we utilised the web addresses to tweet this information. so, for example, we have readily and easily tweeted a ready translated Japenese link to Amazon Japan for our Japenese followers and potential followers. We also found blog posts on other peoples blogs that we were unaware of. As you will know if you go on a blog you can tweet from the post, we selected a few and tweeted those as well, of course making sure to acknowledge the blogger with a thanks or re tweet. Upshot we have widened our reach and capitilised on exposure that we did not even know we had. a great tweet. have a great weekend whereever you may be. SAYONARA IF you like what we write why not join our blog or if you fancy reading one of our books we can be reqched by clicking on the icon with the big hand and the other Hoxton Kirby Icon @DeclanMunro and Belle Marsh More on hashtags soon.

Tweeting and greeting

Yesterday we quadrupled the amount for free books we have ever moved under a KDP select promo on HOXTON KIRBY. Why? Well below we speak about how to use twitter during a free sale. With Hoxton Kirby we have always found the demographic difficult, it is a mystery, it has vampires and it is also a romance, so what changed? We have been running book promos for about 7 months, Nightingale Vale has always had shed loads of downloads but Hoxton has been more difficult, but we think we are onto something. We said before that 1,000 followers is like a magic number, it makes you a more visible player in the world of twitter we think. Suddenly you are visible and now we get an average of 20 unsolicited followers per day, which is great. Most importantly we are getting re-tweeted much more often and sometimes by people who we did not know had ever heard of us. The net result was that on average we were tweeted to about six thousand potential customers by friendly re-tweets, much more than some paid ads. We also cleaned out twitter with TWITCLEANER so that spam bots and those who do not want to follow us were at a minimum.(see below). Most importantly people are beginning to trust us and know we are real people who are genuinely interested in them as much as they are interested in us. Converting free sales into actual sales is a tough call but we are extremely impressed with twitter as a medium for meeting and speaking to people who may be interested in Declan Munro and Belle Marsh as both authors and people. We,also use other methods such as selective free ads and hashtags to widen our reach more of which later. don't forget we are just like you, ordinary dudes who have learned all this in a mere 7 months before which we were complete social network illiterates. If we can do it so can you. Keep well fogies. If you are interested in any of our books click on the side icons the one with the big hand or Hoxton Kirby on it.

MY KDP TWITTER EXPERIENCE FOR AUTHORS

OK, so our recent tweet was about enhancing your twitter grouping or TRIBE. However, I digress today. I was asked by an author friend how to place tweets to enhance my free sales on KDP. 

Firstly I owe a lot to http://www.karenbaney.com/archives/1519 who seems to have found a formula for free sales. But how to put it in to practice?

You need to have built a large twitter platform, say over 1,000 followers and well thought out and genuine twitter followers too. This means you must be genuine, because if you are genuine and do friends favours, they will reciprocate and also post your book to their followers cumulating your reach.

During a free sale you need to post your tweets at well choosen times of the day that match the Amazon time zones so that globally your tweets will be seen. I post about 5 times throughout the day from Amazon UK and US and Amazon de but frankly that is because I have global friends which I would encourage. Now you need to post so you are not ridiculously spammy but enough so you are seen. In short, that is it. I will go into the finer details throughout my posts.

Have a great day and successful twitter time.

CHECK OUT TOBY NEAL'S BUILDING AN AUTHOR PLATFORM THAT WILL LAUNCH ANYTHING which is a very fine analysis of methods used by that particular author and much of which I have found useful in my own twitter excursions.

My final result on my KDP free sale was 467 and that is after our book has been out for 7 months and has had a number of free sales. It is not our best download ever but compared to last month it is a big improvement.

More importantly it is not about downloads but about visibility. We hit 82 in US thrillers and mysteries, 77 in UK thrillers and No 2 in German psych suspense. This made us very visible in the top 100's which is where you must aim to get.

We will soon do a post on hashtags.

DECLAN MUNRO'S book is now 99c/p and can be purchased on the icon to the side with the big hand. BELLE MARSH's book similarly priced is on the icon marked Hoxton Kirby. Also check out Shardpubs.blogspot.com.

Just a little link before you read on. My book Nightingale Vale is free,3 and 4 June. just click on the side icon with the big hand if you're interested. I am on Twitter @DeclanMunro

BIRD BATHS

We spoke last time about the value of twitter to authors especially new authors seeking to introduce themselves. we spoke about authenticity and that engagement is now a bottom up activity. No longer are we to be told what to enjoy or purchase by top down advertisers, the buyer now has the power and the seller has to work hard to get noticed. However there is a certain amount of pragmatism in using twitter, unfortunately not everyone on twitter is active, not everyone is a sharer and a lot of people use remote bots to publish without interaction. RSS feeds and automatic updating software have an essential place in using twitter but nothing compensates for real honest interaction.

So how do you sus out who is a sharer and who is just a bot. The essential aim is to have some balance between followers and those you are following so ideally you want more followers than those you are following. The way to do this is to regularly spring clean your twitter. There are many ways to do this, we use TWITTERCLEANER which identifies inactive or ghost tweeters that are simply clogging up your twitter and not participating in the shared world of tweeters. Then there is TWITTERKARMA this identifies which tweeters are actively following you and those which have no interest in you. Both allow you to click on the offending tweeters and unfollow.

It seems harsh but regular cleaning gradually whittles down your groupings to a TRIBE of people who have a shared interest in following you and you them and who are more likely to start to develop mutually successful relationships whether it be hobbies or sales leading to a more exciting and interesting twitter experience. CHECK IT.

TAKE CARE DECLAN MUNRO AND BELLE MARSH.

DON'T FORGET WE ARE AUTHORS OURSELVES AND IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN OUR WORK CLICK ON THE ICONS AT THE SIDE TO CHECK US OUT AT AMAZON

FOGIES WE ARE BACK.

We had a long pause to decide what to do with this website. We were covering trends but found that most weeks it was One Direction or BGT and if you don't know what they are you are more of a fogie than we are. So now, time permitting this will be an occasional blog on all things that twitter means to us and anyone else who wants to get involved. Plus if we see a good trend we might stick it in for good measure.

So what this blog is for? Technophobes that need to get with it. So don't be square.

Who are we? Belle Marsh and Declan Munro use twitter alot as authors as a launching platform for our books but also and more importantly because it HUGE FUN. You get 140 characters to say what you like to whoever wants,to listen. But twitter is much more than that. It is a big way to #SHOUTOUT to others about yourself and can launch all sorts of new ideas.

We are not techies or geeks (we wish we were) and we will as we go along point you to our favourite techies or follows. But that is the point you do not need to be to become super good at using twitter.

So first things first. JOIN TWITTER. FIND FOLLOWERS. DON'T BE SHY, CLICK AND FOLLOW WHOEVER YOU ARE INTERESTED IN. WORD OF CAUTION. WHEN YOU FIRST JOIN YOU WILL GET SHED LOADS OF DISPICABLE PORNO BOTS. BLOCK THEM AND REPORT THEM AS SPAM IF THEY ARE NOT FOR YOU. YOU MIGHT ALSO GET YOUR TWITTER HACKED BY SCUMBALL BOTS PARTICULARLY MESSAGING. INFORM TWITTER AND CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD.

FUN FOLLOW OF THE DAY @The_New_Movies movie trailers. Brings you the hottest movie trailers for free. Thats all folks.

JOIN DEC AND BELLE ON TWITTER @DeclanMunro

SORRY BUSY WRITING SEQUEL TO NIGHTINGALE VALE AND HAVING EASTER BACK NEXT WEEK

ThrowingaBrick.

PROJECT GLASS This is fantastic Google is getting involved with a project to create augmented glasses What may look like a pair of is essentially a wearable micro-projector. The glasses can by all accounts project movies, images and even websites making the projected image size appear presumably like virtual reality?? Can't wait will be telling everyone at work that I now need glasses. nuff said. Don't tell the boss.

SAMANTHA BRICK Article in the DM about why this journo get free bubbly from strange men and is apparently hated by mediocre ordinary women who simply cannot basque in the sunlight of her allure. This is so clearly a spoof to control the twitter media that the fact that it has had a million tweets is actually proof pudding that social media can be manipulated that should be the objection to this drivel and not the fact that Sam is too beautiful for women to stomach. lol. She is going to make a fortune, expect a book soon.

bigbrotheriswatchingyou!

#TELL DAVE EVERYTHING. It is being reported that the British Gvoernment is proposing new legislation that will allow the goverment intelligence agencies to directly intercept social networks in real time by forcing service providers to install softward that allows such encroachment without the need for a warrant. This sounds like a dangerous erosion of democracy if true and twitterers are already suggesting that we might as well post all our emails and tweets to the prime minister to save him the time of intercepting material. However proponants argue that such technology is need. To stave off terrorism and serious and organised crime. What do you think? We are somewhat surprised this is not the top tweet currently because the implications of other jurisdictions considering this course is no doubt of concern to logs of twitterers. Frankly if anyone wants to read my tweets they are welcome it would be a massive waste of their time.

Boobtastic

The only trend of any interest to us todsy is NATIONAL CLEAVAGE DAY. Celebrate cleavage and for good reason. Boobs are big news they're everywhere but there is also an important point to be made. Boobs come in all shapes and sizes ladies and the image of one boob for all is a load of rubbish. celebrate you mammaries girls and splenda in the fact that you are great. don't forget to check them girls and get down to the Doc's if anything concerns you, you need to look after your cleavage. Love ya.

Dempseyagogo?

Rumour's that the gorgeous actor Patrick Dempsey, Disney Enchanted, Grey Anatomy have apparently been seriously over exaggerated. We can find no evidence it is true. is it a hoax? We would be really depressed if that is the case. Nothing on the news, looks like an early April fool.

Zoubisoubezzzzzzzz

ZOU BISOU BISOU A recording of the Sixties French pop "Zou Bisou Bisou" sung by actress Jessica Paré from last night's season premiere of Mad Men has been released as a download in the iTunes store. Not exactly going to win the lyrics award,of the year.Zou bisou bisuo, zou bizou bizou, zoubi zoo zoubi zoooooooo dressed in a black mini dress and tease that guy. Girls all want to look like her and guys wow.

GONE FISHIN'

WE ARE WRITING THIS WEEKEND SO NO POSTS UNTIL MONDAY UNLESS BIG NEWS. WE CAN ALSO BE FOUND AT SHARDPUBS@BLGSPOT.COM AMD VAMPMYSTERY@BLOGSPOT.COM

pop quiz see below trends.

HOW MANY HANDS HAS BIG BEN GOT???????

Big Ben O Bonkers

A group of MP's have suggested that BIG BEN the clock tower at The Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament) have suggested that it be renamed ELIZABETH TOWER after the reigning Queen of England Elizabeth II causing furore among republicans. Is it the 1st of April already you cannot be serious?


President Barack Obama has nominated TRENDING JIM YONG KIM, the president of the Dartmouth College and a global-health expert, as the new president of the World Bank (source telegraph) Since its creation in 1944, the president of the World Bank has always been an American, but developing countries had pressed for a merit-based competition. The US could have lost legitimacy if it foisted a low-calibre leader on the institution when there are well-qualified candidates from developing countries. However, the initial response to the nomination of the Korean-American, whose name had not been canvassed in press reports beforehand, was positive. (source Financial times)


England rugby player DANNY CARE has been arrested for sexual assault. the 24 year old Harlequins half scrum was arrested on 4 March. He has been released on bail pending enquires.

Incomprehensibletwits??

ANGRY BIRDS SPACE No not a load of girls losing their rag but the forthcoming gaming app of stupidly incompetent birds. We've got it on our pads check it. great laugh. android,and apple WE NEED STELENA TOGETHER The relationship between Elena Gilbert and Stephan Salvetore in Vampire Diaries TV series. complicated by the fact that Stephan isma vampire and his brother is also in love with Elena. Fans call them Stelena.

S Club plastic

Rumour is S CLUB 7 that tweentastic bubble gum pop group are back together again. REACH FOR THE STARS. They're fans are now between 21 and 25 so will they be able to stomach the pop seniors comeback who knows. Now most of the band are parents themselves. Beiber and One Direction are still trending we'll leave that to the little ones. We think recent trends have been a little boring come on fogies there must be something more interesting than bubble pop to talk about.

Sweeneytwits

Sweeneytwits Sweeney Todd is trending anyone know why? Possibly a new production on Broadway but we may be wrong. anyhow a few Sweeney facts. Todd is a fictional character and a barber, but do you know why barbers have a red ad white spinning pole in the front of their shops. .Well barbers apparently doubled as medics and the spinning wheel represents blood and bandages indicating that the barbers were also able to perform medical work Todd dispatched his victims by tipping them into a trap door from a reclining seat and his partner in crime Mrs Lovett disposed of the bodies in meat pies. He makes his first appearance we have discovered on the net on in a Victorian melodrama called String of Pearls. His shop was said to have been at 186 Fleet Street The barber has been portrayed in any films and plays the most memorable probably being Tim Burton's film starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter as the barber and his cohort. The film was based on the musical by Stephen Sondhiem. Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. A Musical Thriller. (sources google and wiki)

WEEKEND MADNESS AND MUST WRITE FOR THE DAY JOB HOPE TO UPDATE MONDAY IF NOT EARLIER HAVE A LOVELY ONE

IPADAMANIA

IPAD 3 is the big thing out today. Our best story heard on lbc97.3 is a boy standing in a queue outside the Apple store was offered £300 by an unknown person ina Claridges envelope to move back from fifth place to tenth. he agreed!!!!! DARK SHADOWS Tim Burtons teaser trailer out now A gothic-horror tale centering on the life of vampire Barnabas Collins and his run-ins with various monsters, witches, werewolves and ghosts. Based on the cult TV series.

Were feeling Fogetastic.

WE'RE FEELING FOGETASTIC KEN BARLOW IS TRENDING hurrah for fogeys, anyone over a certain age will remember him as the mild mannered lothario in the long running British soap Coronation Street, but, do you remember Minnie Cauldwell and Ena Sharples?  You're going way back. Any way according to the Daily Mirror Newspaper he is equally as interesting in real life. check it out. Real name Bill Roache he apparently claims to have notched up an impressive number of women in real life. Didn't know you had it in you Ken.

We fogeys didn't know what FIFA STREET was and wanted the heads up so we consulted the oracle wiki and low it is apparently a 2012 FIFA Street (also known as FIFA Street 2012)  a sports video game by EA Sports' FIFA Street franchise based on street football. It is the first such game in almost four years,


WE WISH YOU WELL ERIC ABIDAL Barcelona's France international defender Eric Abidal is to undergo a liver transplant, the club have announced. Abidal, 32, had liver surgery a year ago after being diagnosed with a tumour, and played in the Champions League final win over Manchester United a few months later. A club statement said: "Given the development of his medical condition, Abidal will undergo a liver transplant in the following weeks. (guardian news source)


Saddest news of the day a baby in New Dehli called BABY FALAK who had been the victim of violent abuse and against all odds had survived a number of critical issues in hospital including two heart attacks sadly lost the fight for life. We are always interested in international news stories because they are not necessarily reported here. RIP  Baby Falak.

Quiet trend day but just a coupla good ones.

Not many trends that don't speak for themselves today 14 March but we liked this one

It is apparently National Condom day but then again wasn't it national condom day on 14 Feb????????

RAVEN SYMON FROM DISNEYS SHE'S SO RAVEN NEW YORK (AP) — Raven-Symone is all grown up — and going to a convent. The former cutie from "The Cosby Show" will take over the lead part in Broadway's hit musical "Sister Act" later this month, playing a nightclub-singer-turned-nun.

Says the 26-year-old actress: "I'm very excited to be part of this."

Raven-Symone takes over the role from Patina Miller, who earned a Tony Award nomination in the part. Whoopi Goldberg, who was the original Deloris Van Cartier in the hit 1992 film, is producing the musical.

The musical's plot is faithful to the movie: A nightclub singer accidentally witnesses a murder by her crime boss lover and flees to a convent to hide.

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Online:

http://www.sisteractbroadway.

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Well Twitterees we have found some interesting trends and will further update later. 


We are quite proud of our investigatory skills fogies were not clear who PROUD OF NIALL was but a little digging and we have turned up the info. PROUDOFNIALL nearly stumped as a trend until we saw that alot of the tweeters call themselves directioners. They are fans of the band One Direction and Niall is band member Niall Horan. (wiki for more about the band)


Free Starbucks. wednesday 14 March til noon.


HAPPY SWIFT DAY. Relates to Taylor Swift the American teen sensation singer who apparently loves Friday the 13 although today is not a Friday??????


REBEKAH BROOKS and her husband charlie Brooks have allegedly been arrested by 'phone hacking dectectives" Ms Brooks is the former News International Chief executive. Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie are reportedly among six people arrested this morning in dawn raids by detectives investigating allegations of phone hacking. Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/


Monday, March 12, 2012 Journalist ‘Baby’ Etchecopar shot in home robbery Two armed robbers broke into the home of famed journalist “Baby” Etchecopar and shot him and his son, sources reported. The men broke into Etchecopar’s home in San Isidro and allegedly tried to kidnap his son.  He was shot twice, while his son was shot four times. They are both hospitalized and their condition is yet to disclosed. Buenos Aires Herald

Twittertoday

We remember Kenan and Kel when the kids watched it o Nickelodeon why it is trending is a question that we would like answered. We thought it was hilarious.

KENAN AND KEL. Kenan & Kel is an American teen sitcom produced by Tollin/Robbins Productions that originally aired on Nickelodeon from July 1996 to July 2000. The show starred friends and then-All That cast members Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell.Sixty-Five episodes and a made-for-TV movie were produced over four seasons. The first two seasons were filmed at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida, and the remaining two were filmed at the Nick On Sunset theater in Hollywood. Source wiki


DID YOU KNOW THERE IS A DISCUSSION GROUP DEDICATED TO MASHABLE ON LINKED IN.
MASHABLE and mashable.com Mashable (Mashable Inc.) is an American news website and Internet news blog founded by Pete Cashmore.The website's primary focus is social media news, but also covers news and developments in mobile, entertainment, online video, business, web development, technology, memes and gadgets. Mashable was launched by Pete Cashmore from his home in Aberdeen, Scotland in July 2005. With a reported 50+ million monthly pageviews and an Alexa ranking under 250, Mashable ranks as one of the world's largest websites. Time Magazine noted Mashable as one the 25 best blogs in 2009, and has been described as "one stop shop" for social media. As of March 2012, it has over 2,775,000 Twitter followers and over 838,400 fans on Facebook.


DANCE ACADEMY. Dance Academy is an Australian teen-oriented television drama produced by Werner Film Productions in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and ZDF. Series one premiered on 31 May 2010, and series two is scheduled to begin on 12 March 2012.

All sources wiki

What is a tee-shirt?? Be on top of twitter trends.: UK and International twits

What is a tee-shirt?? Be on top of twitter trends.: UK and International twits: Hello all we love bringing you worldwide and UK trends it is so cool to know things going i the world that usally do not appear in our news ...

UK and International twits

We have just re - edited this post 'cos our IPAD fingers mean we made spelling nistakes. lol


Hello all we love bringing you worldwide and UK trends it is so cool to know things going in the world that usually do not appear in our news topics on the telly so this is our selection of twitter trends today.

Our Fav sorry guys just love Disney - JOHN CARTER is trending new big Disney 3D tentpole from John Carter is a American science fiction action film that tells the adventures of John Carter the hero of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Barsoom series.^{(wiki source)}

ROGER WATERS Chilean TV airs interview in which Pink Floyd founder condemns British policy on islands contested by Argentina. (source guardian)

  UK still trending as below see Uganda's invisible children, International Womens Day and RIP the rap star Biggie Smalls


INTERNATIONAL RAHUL DRAVID INDIA INTERNATIONAL CRICKETER IS TO RETIRE Regarded by many as the greatest batsman in the history of the team he holds many cricketing records and is referred to as The Wall of Indian Cricket (wiki)


RICKEY SMILEY. Prank phone call and comedian and radio personality. famous for prank calls where he disguises his identity for comedic effect (wiki)


FLORENCE CASSEZ French woman. Convicted in Mexico of belonging to a kidnap gang called The Zodiacs and the campaign to free her Shannon Leto famous drummer of band 30 seconds to Mars (french google)

Still trending below

also international womens day today nuff said.

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Pierre Tornade French Actor and comedian born 21 Jan 1930 has died today. He voiced some of the muppet characters on French Muppets including Statler

59th National Awards The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. (ref wiki)

GOOGLE PLAY Google has rebranded the Android market in the US as Google Play. therefore combining books, media, apps and movies into an entertainment hub (source C/net)

INVISIBLE CHILDREN AND STOP KONY All relate to a documentary concerning children enlisted into a Ugandan guerrilla army. (source wiki)

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Five 'top LULZSEC hackers' to face charges in New York Five people accused of being top members of the computer hacking group LulzSec, infamous for allegedly having hacked into the CIA, have been arrested and will face charges in New York, it has emerged. (source The online Telegraph newspaper. INTERESTING FACTOID Birthday Gabriel Garcia Marquez author of Love in the Time of Cholera Born March 6 1927 CANNOT go without mentioning the death of ROBERT SHERMAN (December 19, 1925 – March 5, 2012) was an American songwriter who specialised in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman. whose best known songs were incorporated into movies and animations like Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Slipper and the Rose, and the theme park song of "It's a Small World (After All)".(probably the most irritating song in the world or not, as homaged in The Lion King (disney) by Scar. (source wiki)

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Well Fogies young and old it is all technology today. Just as a note not actually trending but it is also Paris Fashion Week this week so we are paying homage to our Manolo Blahnik's (we wish)

IPAD HD the 3rd apple tablet to be launched soon with HD screen and faster processors and 4G connectivity which means it is super fast, faster than 3G. Personally we love the ipad and work on it on the go.

Adobe Photoshop LIGHTROOM 4 new and enhanced set of digital phototools

WELCOME HOME ROSCOE JENKINS AMERICAN COMEDY FILE THE PREMISE OF WHICH IS Dr. R.J. (Roscoe) Stevens (Martin Lawrence) is a talk show sensation who has moved from his hick town Southern past trending because it would seem to be doing the rounds on us tv and film streaming. (source wiki)

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PETER BARLOW - Fictional character from the British soap Coronation Street which has been running since I was knee high to a grass hopper. Anyone remember #Minnie Caldwell. Fogies can celebrate this one.
HALO 4 upcoming xbox game 360


BRITISH PIE WEEK - Yum we are going off to make a pie immediately. FROM 5 - 11 MARCH is British pie week http://www.britishpieweek.co.uk/

SNEAKY JOSH BRADLEY Nandito Ako (lit. Here I Am) is a mini television series in the Philippines. It is aired on TV5 starting February 20, 2012.[1][2][3][4][5]Starring character Josh Bradley. (source wiki)

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OUR PERSONAL FAVE. KEY LIME PIE -BEWARE HERE FOGIES - Not what you think. whilst key lime pie is a delicious dessert in this instance it is linked to the potential name for the new Android. An Android in case your are wondering isn't some sort of intergalactic robot but a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It is developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google.(source wiki and google.

WATCHING DOUG - Created by former Nickelodeon artist Jim Jinkins in 1990 and produced through Jinkins' production company, Jumbo Pictures Inc., Doug follows the life of an average kid named Doug Funnie. Doug and his family have just moved from their former residence in Bloatsburg, to the new town of Bluffington. There he meets Skeeter, Patti, Roger and Beebe, and his new life in a new town begins! Doug writes in his journal and sometimes even imagines himself as a superhero named Quailman. SOURCE http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=watching%20doug&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftv.blinkx.com%2Fshow%2Fdoug%2Fv-5w8r0BW1tDUpgk&ei=Q19UT7znH-PQ0QXhvvzSCw&usg=AFQjCNGfftRr8ZBtwNGF_yzO2pRF3oCnmw&sig2=ZNs4i0255tIlz_eSjUtKyA

OPTIMUS PRIME Just on TV in indonesia so it has gone viral from there and everyone is talking about the famous Transformer leader. Don't forget that Transformers is currently being made into a new sequel directed by Michael Bay.

RALPH MAY - Ralphie O. May (born February 17, 1972) is an American stand-up comedian know for his portly appearance. (source wiki)


TPG The best we can come up with is that this is to do with women who like to go out. Any ideas would be great?????? We don't want to be fogies without information.

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I GOT THE HOOK UP - A TRUCK LOAD OF PHONES TURNS INTO A BOAT LOAD OF CASH. Starring Master p and A J JOHNSON MOVIE WITH A HIP HOP SOUNDTRACK.

RALPH MAQUARRIE - Just passed away - Ralph McQuarrie (June 13, 1929 - March 3, 2012) conceptual designer and illustrator who designed the original Star Wars trilogy, the original Battlestar Galactica (TV), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award. REF WIKI.http://www.ralphmcquarrie.com/

Omegle social networking chat too strangers with a common interest. is a great way of meeting new friends. When you use Omegle, we pick another user at random and let you have a one-on-one chat with each other. Chats are completely anonymous, although there is nothing to stop you from revealing personal details if you would like. Ref Log in to meet strangers with common interests! Ref http://omegle.com/

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P.Y.T Song "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) a song by Michael Jackson (check wiki).It has also been performed on Glee (check out you tube)

Stop Selena - campaign to stop a hate campaign against performer and former disney kid in Wizards of Waverley place Selena Gomez. Linked to teen icon Justin Bieber who she is apparently dating.

Stacy's Mom hit song by American group Fountains of Wayne 2003. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLfasMPOU4&feature=share


Kirk Cameron - Made remarks on Piers Morgan Show regarding homosexuality and has caused huge Twitter outrage.

BOY London - Urban outfitters Back in the 1970s Stephane Raynor and his iconic label Boy London provided punks and new romantics alike with exactly what they wanted. Now he’s back on the scene delivering a look that features clean design with bold logos made to be worn with attitude. Rhinna recently seen wearing the clothing on Jonathan Ross show and elsewhere.

Izia Higelin - French rock singer and guitarist

video Girl - song trending now sung by the Jonas Brothers

Proud of Chiara - Williams College sophomore women's cross country runner Chiara Del Piccolo . We believe this is the trend please let us know.