p2pnet news view | Advertising:- “Lucille166 (Lucille166) is now following your updates on Twitter,” said an email yesterday.

p2pnet only recently started tweeting on Twitter (how do they come up with these names?) and with a mere 17 followers to date, new arrivals are of interest.

To digress briefly, “Is Sarah Palin more popular than porn?” – wonders a Dan Tynan Twitter headline.

And on his blog, “It seems that Americans are now more interested in social networks than pornography”,” he says, quoting Reuters which in turn quotes Hitwise general manager Bill Tancer as saying, “surfing for porn had dropped to about 10 percent of searches from 20 percent a decade ago, and the hottest Internet searches now are for social networking sites”.

Further down, “Hitwise also measures the most popular searches for political terms,” says Tynan under the pic on the right, going on »»»

You can guess which lipstick-wearing pitbull of a hockey mom tops the charts there. Per the Washington Post:

… in her first two days in the national spotlight, U.S. Internet searches on all things Palin — her photos, her biography, her family, anything — outnumbered any other politician in the past three years, says Hitwise.com, which also monitors Web data. In many cases, her name was searched alongside the word ‘hot.’

I’m guessing that also includes searches for Palin’s head photo-shopped onto various nude or bikini-clad models.

Does that qualify as porn? If so, I think Tancer needs to revisit his conclusions about social nets.

And does Twitter qualify as a social network?

Back to Lucille166, she has a whopping 1,766 followers! And when we went to see what made her so popular, we landed on an adults-only girlie site at http://vivatuna.biz.

How, as an apparent new tweeter, had she acquired such a following so quickly?

Had she (shudder) been spamming other Twitterers and if she had, is this a new and upcoming trend on social sites or sites like Twitter (if you don’t  consider it to be among the latter)?

Only The Shadow knows.

Meanwhile, today http://vivatuna.biz offline.

Stay tweeted.

Jon Newton – p2pnet

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