discoverynews: Rumor Has It: Higgs Buzz Sparks Twitter Trend Just before 3 p.m. on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, the elusive Higgs boson made science history: it topped the list of trending Twitter topics via the hashtag #HiggsRumors. All this because of a flurry of rumors that began on a handful of physics blogs, and quickly spread to media outlets. keep reading (the real culprit for the Twitter outage today?)

discoverynews:

Rumor Has It: Higgs Buzz Sparks Twitter Trend

Just before 3 p.m. on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, the elusive Higgs boson made science history: it topped the list of trending Twitter topics via the hashtag #HiggsRumors. All this because of a flurry of rumors that began on a handful of physics blogs, and quickly spread to media outlets.

keep reading

(the real culprit for the Twitter outage today?)

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