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Starting this morning, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) is adding search results from Chinese microblog site Sina Weibo, giving its search engine users quick access to tweets on trending topics. The very recent

Who says Ramadan can’t be fun? Having a laugh on Twitter is one way to get rid of boredom and forget hunger during fasting days. For Indonesians, making jokes on

What’s hot on Twitter in Indonesia today? Support. But for a number of different causes. There are two topics caught the public’s attention today. One is SUPPORT TIMNAS INDONESIA, an

After the Japan women’s football team beat America in penalties early this morning, there was no shortage of congratulations and from fans in the US and around the world. “Congrats

Dell’s upcoming Peju tablet made onto Twitter’s trending topics on Monday afternoon in Indonesia. Now before you start thinking that Dell has discovered some marketing secret in the Asian nation,

Since Wednesday morning, the topic “Vokalis Band Vierra Diculik” (Vierra Band Vocalist Kidnapped in Indonesian) was on the top of Twitter’s trending topics. It was not only trending in Indonesia

It is common to see an artist or a rock band’s name featured as a world wide trending topic on Twitter. However, if a name of a religious figure goes

We posted earlier today about India’s fight against corruption and how the struggle was manifesting on the web. Since then activist Anna Hazare has become a trending topic on Twitter,