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Whitney Houston and Waffle House Trending

Getting Twitter reactions to Whitney Houston’s funeral was an odd enough task to start with. Most Twitter reaction material is about weaves, political races, and that sort of thing. I figured it...
Whitney Houston and Waffle House Trending
Written by Mike Tuttle
  • Getting Twitter reactions to Whitney Houston’s funeral was an odd enough task to start with. Most Twitter reaction material is about weaves, political races, and that sort of thing. I figured it would be a bunch of sad comments and lyrics, with some dark humor thrown in.

    Then came Waffle House.

    Um… what?

    I understand a business wanting to get some sort of discussion flowing, which hopefully would include their own hashtag, but the cognitive dissonance of #wafflehouse and #whitneyhoustonfuneral in the same tweet was too good to pass up. Maybe it has something to do with the initials matching?

    Here we go…

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