AARP is now trending on Twitter

[highplainsdem]

Lots of tweets about Ryan being booed.

http://twitter.com/i/#!/search/?q=AARP&src=tren

[mfcorey1]

1. This one is my favorite

5m billscher billscher ?@billscher

BREAKING: After successful speeches to the NAACP and AARP, the Romney-Ryan victory train heads next for Planned Parenthood.

[Fresh_Start]

7. another good one

Andy Borowitz ?@BorowitzReport
Since Romney doesn't care about poor people, he needed to balance the ticket with someone who doesn't care about old people. #AARP

[woodsprite]

2. OK, I'm gonna sound totally dumb, but I hardly ever use Twitter

What exactly does "trending on twitter" mean? Does it just mean that subject is getting a lot of hits and is popular right now. Even when I was using twitter the other day in at a webinar, I didn't think I was using it right because I didn't seem to be seeing the same tweets as was being projected on the speaker's screen.

Must learn more about it.....

[bigtree]

5. lots of tweets coming up on folks' pages

I think you have to be 'following' folks who are apt to tweet about the subject you're pursuing info about to have their tweets come up. You can pull up AARP's tweet address and 'follow' them to have a satellite on your page for other tweets. I'm sure someone else can explain this better, tho, since I'm fairly new to twitter, myself.

[Brickbat]

6. "Trending" means a lot of people are using the same hashtag to post about something.

[bigtree]

3. cause

and effect

[flamingdem]

4. I can just hear this person muttering:

Markos Moulitsas ?@markos

RT @Rebecca_CBSNJ: As we walk out of AARP, an attendee mutters to his companion, "it was a bunch of bull."