Meteorite surpasses patriotism?
Yesterday in late afternoon, a meteorite landed near Mazsalaca in northern Latvia. As i don’t look television so much and radio wasn’t turned on due to new Wolfmother album, i read flashing news in Twitter. Some mentioned it earlier than others, but he massive hype started as the #meteorite, #meteorīts began to spread in Twitter pond full of latvians.
There has been a massive common hashtag use to recognize latvians – #fromlatvia. Seems, it is quiet now, so patriotism is quite silent…everybody is talking about meteorite. Some photos has appeared, video has been added to youtube, people are talking about commercial campaign, about politicians etc.
There’s a saying – fall as cold water on head, it could be edited as fall as a meteorite in Latvia. I am aware that most people don’t know about meteorite, most don’t care, but it’s a fact that latvians are crazy to get this topic in trending words list on Twitter. As i am to update my blog, there is going to be small Twitter activity to post hashtag “meteorīts” right at noon. Wish us luck.
Most precise commentary, in my opinion, is said by Edijs Majors – “Ir nokritis nevis #meteorīts, bet asiņains gaļas gabals, kuru plosa kaulaini šakāļi (mediji), rijot gardo miesu (reitingus).” (It is no meteorite that has fallen, it is bloody piece of meat, which is gnawed by bone jackals (media), eating tasty flesh (ratings).
Nearly day has passed and now it is clear, that meteorite was campaign of mobile operator Tele 2. Well, only news i want to hear is expenses. Expenses of including police, army and other institutions. Gotta be biggie $ ! Hope that my operator LMT/okarte will do something too, up to know it seems that Bite were great with dance flashmob, Tele2 did fabulous things with meteorite..
