RIP Tony Hart

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

Other people also dead...

No, No, No, No, No. When did that happen? I used to like him in those insurance commercials.

 

[Puppet Master]

 

[glasfryn]

this is why social media is so shite.

 

[Official Old Man]

Often wonder how many people need to look something up to promote it to a "top story" - happens quite a bit on the BBC website when old items reappear in the "Most Popular" column for no apparent reason. Perhaps they do it deliberately to catch people out?

As mentioned elsewhere, the BBC now put a little note telling when a story first started. But yes, how many hits does a story need to get into the top ten and why do that many people look up an old story all at the same time. On most occasions I've seen it happen the story has no connection with anything happening that day. Right now the top story is about the Glasgow bin lorry but just a repeat of the days page 22 Dec 2014

 

[Questions]

Bloody typical. Healthy as you like for 83 years and then you die twice in 6 years.

 

[Notters]

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/16/tony-harts-second-death-are-greatly-exaggerated

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

As mentioned elsewhere, the BBC now put a little note telling when a story first started. But yes, how many hits does a story need to get into the top ten and why do that many people look up an old story all at the same time. On most occasions I've seen it happen the story has no connection with anything happening that day. Right now the top story is about the Glasgow bin lorry but just a repeat of the days page 22 Dec 2014

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-31491991?ocid=socialflow_twitter

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

this is why social media is so shite.

I was caught out by a retweet on my timeline on Saturday evening about the death of Nicolas Lyndhurst. The original tweet was from a fake Sky News twitter account which looked genuine at first glance and had been retweeted and favourited hundreds of times in the ten minutes since it had been posted. My NSC thread had to be redacted and finally moved but at the same time on Twitter it was still trending at number 6.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

I was caught out by a retweet on my timeline on Saturday evening about the death of Nicolas Lyndhurst. The original tweet was from a fake Sky News twitter account which looked genuine at first glance and had been retweeted and favourited hundreds of times in the ten minutes since it had been posted. My NSC thread had to be redacted and finally moved but at the same time on Twitter it was still trending at number 6.

What a plonker.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

this is why social media is so shite.

A curious example to pick to suggest social media is shite.

No real harm done in this instance.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Next you'll be suggesting that 'Lady' Diana has succumbed to a road traffic accident within a tunnel in France.

I'm just off to lay some flowers at Kensington Palace. See you all there.