13.10 Unrest Sees Obscure Moscow Region Go Global on Twitter
MOSCOW, October 13 (RIA Novosti) Unrest sparked by a local murder and discontent with the governments policy on migration saw an obscure region of Moscow make the big-time on Sunday as the Cyrillic word Biryulovo became a global trend on microblogging site Twitter.
To go global on Twitter, a word needs to be used a minimum of 10,000 to 20,000 times an hour. The Russian word Biryulovo, #, a region in southern Moscow, spent about 30 minutes trending globally on the site, RIA Novosti reports.
The word has held top spot in the Russian Twitter-sphere for much of Sunday afternoon-evening, and #Moscow has held its own in the top 10, RIA Novosti reports.
On Thursday night-Friday morning, a young man was fatally stabbed in Biryulovo in southern Moscow as he returned home with his girlfriend. The attacker fled the scene. Police circulated pictures of a man who is wanted in connection with the incident, and who has been identified in the Russian media as a migrant.
