Justin Bieber, the teenage pop singer, has become the biggest ngôi sao on the internet. The 16-year-old Canadian has taken over from Lady Gaga as the person who features in the most web searches. Bieber, who was discovered on YouTube, is getting three times as many searches as footballer David Beckham, despite being relatively unheard of in the UK, according to website Ask Jeeves. The site, which deals with các câu hỏi about his âm nhạc and tình yêu life, said: “It’s as though to millions he only exists on the net.”
It is not the first example of Bieber’s huge popularity on the internet. He topped Twitter’s danh sách of “trending topics” for several months earlier this year. In April this năm he came seventh – bizarrely – on a danh sách of the 50 most được ưa chuộng women on the internet, compiled bởi COEDMagazine. He has also been the subject of several internet hoaxes and hacks. Hackers managed to abuse a flaw in the YouTube site which allowed them to redirect users to adult sites and send them fake pop-up messages. Several of Bieber’s âm nhạc video were targeted, with abusive các bình luận about the singer appearing beneath certain clips and banner messages appearing claiming the singer was dead.
It was the latest in a series of internet pranks against the young singer, whose ‘My World Tour’ page on his website has become the target of an international joke, after a public vote was đã đăng asking where Bieber should tour tiếp theo – with no restrictions on location. The despotic North Korea, followed bởi Israel, has topped the list, with just over half a million sự bỏ phiếu having been cast. The singer was forced to tweet confirming he is alive.
It is not the first example of Bieber’s huge popularity on the internet. He topped Twitter’s danh sách of “trending topics” for several months earlier this year. In April this năm he came seventh – bizarrely – on a danh sách of the 50 most được ưa chuộng women on the internet, compiled bởi COEDMagazine. He has also been the subject of several internet hoaxes and hacks. Hackers managed to abuse a flaw in the YouTube site which allowed them to redirect users to adult sites and send them fake pop-up messages. Several of Bieber’s âm nhạc video were targeted, with abusive các bình luận about the singer appearing beneath certain clips and banner messages appearing claiming the singer was dead.
It was the latest in a series of internet pranks against the young singer, whose ‘My World Tour’ page on his website has become the target of an international joke, after a public vote was đã đăng asking where Bieber should tour tiếp theo – with no restrictions on location. The despotic North Korea, followed bởi Israel, has topped the list, with just over half a million sự bỏ phiếu having been cast. The singer was forced to tweet confirming he is alive.