#JujuFriday climbs to second largest Twitter trend. Can it reach #1?

ANC Youth League (ANCYL) firebrand Julius Malema went viral on Twitter on Friday, 12 November 2010, as Internet users in South Africa and around the world poked fun at the controversial youth league leader with the hashtag "#JujuFriday".

By Nur Bremmen

12 Nov 2010

What The Trend.com, which calls itself 'the front page of the real-time web', has #jujufriday currently ranked as the third biggest trend worldwide today, but Twitter itself has it at number two.

The hashtag was created in response to the ANCYL's bizarre and laughable threats to close down the micro-blogging network last week as a result of several fake Julius Malema Twitter profiles on the social network.

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Nur Bremmen is a staff reporter at [[www.memeburn.com]].