Trend Review Saturday 20 February

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Before we hand over to Ranting Writer, we just want to say a few things.  Might get soppy, but indulge us.

Yesterday was the start of the tour.  Away back at the beginning of January, Jambobee tweeted thanking the Grimlings for the support and saying keep it up until the tour.  Got to be honest, as Twitter Geeks we had our doubts whether this was possible.  Beliebers and Glamberts had done long trends, but they were constant and with an incredible numbers of fans.  UK fans had never done anything of this scale before.

Well, Grimlings are nothing if not innovative.  Twitter has been worked around and loopholed on ways that are both funny and new.  Grimlings have scooted round the problems in numbers to make sure that every day shortly after 6 there is a support trend for @mr_grimshaw in the Trending Topics.  Every single trend has been started by fans – every one.  Although sometimes we have been staring at Mr Gs feed and saying PLEASE START A TREND PLEASE! there is something amazing about the fact that all trends have been fan started and fan supported.

The double trends and triple trends are just great.  Although the “OMG We have xx more days of this don’t use up trends” sensible head wants to keep the trends to one a day, the Aiden fan head is cheering “You beauty – check that out!”.  Cave Dweller thinks the secret to our success is the fact that we trend quickly, we trend at the same time, we trend in numbers, we don’t try to hog the trends and that we change the trend every day, which keeps the algorithms fresh and all us Grimlings interested.

At 6 o’clock every night. we put the trend into search and watch something different happening.  At 6 we see Grimlings come together.  We all have our little groups, and as each of us involved in the site follow so many Grimlings on our personal accounts, we have a good idea of who they are.  But at 6 o’clock you all go mad, RTing each other, tweeting people that you don’t normally tweet, passing little comments from group to group, sharing injokes and little sayings.  The trending may have one purpose (SIGN AIDEN GRIMSHAW) but a great side effect is that for an hour we are all having a laugh with each other, finding new people to follow and sharing our thoughts.  That’s what changes us from a fangroup into a community.

There are a few people involved in this site and I’d just like to say a quick thanks to them for nursing me and this site along to the start of the tour. The biggest thanks goes to the users of this site and the followers of @AGTrendSite.  Thanks for trusting us.  Thanks for trending.  Thanks for keeping it going until the tour.  This trending  has never been done before and we doubt whether it will again 🙂

Dear twitter

You really are a horrible evil little hornbeast aren’t you.  I was nice to you NICE.  That word is not in my vocabulary.  In fact, my computer red-squiggily lines it I use it so infrequently.  I laid my heart on the line.  Only did that once before and it ended messily.  One of us went to Casualty and one of us went to jail.  The food was the same for both of us.

I wont be making that mistake again, I tell you.  The day started so well, with a great early morning trend of GoodLuckAiden.  We take no credit for that one GRIMLINGS RULE.  In fact I was happily carousing and knew nothing about it.

So, the evening trend was meant to be fun.  Do you remember fun twitter, or has dealing with all the haterz who use you for evil beaten out of you?  We were trending for fun and giggles, but you didn’t like that, did you?  You’d already blocked our mic stand fun, did you have to carry that on?  What the hell was wrong with you TWITTATTATATTAHHHH?  WellDoneGrimshaw was a decent trend, although we didn’t have the numbers it should have trended.  Usually you let us hit TTs as soon as the Emergency Trend is posted, but last night you let us sweat.  We had changed to Quifftastic for a good few minutes before WellDoneGrimshaw popped up.  At that point we all ripped up the rulebook and then twitter AND THEN it backfired on you, didn’t it you horrible crackpot?  We trended both.  BOTH.  On a fun trend that we didn’t even have to do.  HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE BESTED?

Anyway, after a night spent in my safe room away from all human targets, I mean contact, I feel better twitter, yes I do.  Ready to blast the trend tonight.  Ready to smash it as well as Mr G is smashing the tour.  Because all the videos and pictures have made us all realise that it is indeed WHEN NOT IF.  It’s great to see.  And nothing that you do twitter will stop it.  NOTHING.

Stick your love where the sun don’t shine twitter and clear the TTs at 5.  Because we’re gonna be back for our 81st trend attempt

The Grimling Quiff Team

So, there you have it.  Remember to vote and we’ll see you at 5