Friday, September 11, 2009

Lucifer Takes Over Twitter


Yesterday morning, fans of The WB's show, "Supernatural," took over Twitter's trending topics with the hash tag #LuciferisComing. It referred to the season premiere of the show that was to air that night where Lucifer would break free from his cage and the apocalypse would start on earth. All pretty innocent fun and easy to figure out if you only click on the trending topic.

Yet somehow Puff Daddy/P Diddy/Sean Combs (@iamdiddy) mistook the trending topic as Satanists converging on the growing social network and roused his nearly two million followers to respond with the message: "I'm calling GODS ARMY TO ATTENTION!! #GODISHERE #GODISHERE #GODISHERE let the devil know the fight he's in for! Retweet all day! Make GOD #1."

It didn't quite work. It never surpassed any of the Supernatural-related trending topics yesterday and fell off the list right around the time Twitter removed #LuciferisComing from the trending topics due to complaints. Apparently fandom doesn't have a right to fanatical free speech if it could be mistaken for satanic sentiment.

Now Supernatural fans are working to get the hash tag #Godhasleftthebuilding on the trending list, in reference to a comment the angel Zachariah made in the season 4 finale. If it makes it to the trending topics, I wonder how that will make "God's army" feel.