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What “Lenon” Trending Tells Us About Wikileaks and Twitter « Student Activism

What “Lenon” Trending Tells Us About Wikileaks and Twitter « Student Activism

What “Lenon” Trending Tells Us About Wikileaks and Twitter

Today is the 30th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon. As I write this, “Yoko Ono” is sixth on Twitter’s global trending topics list, and “Lenon” is fifth.

Neither “Lennon” nor “John Lennon” appears.

Why is this? Is it because more people are misspelling John Lennon’s name than spelling it correctly? No. Far more people are spelling it right than wrong — and a big chunk of those who are spelling it wrong are doing so to