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Pigs Fly, Hell Freezes Over and Pacifica Trends on Twitter

That's right. Pacifica is one of the most talked about subjects on the international social media hub Twitter.com.

A city is rarely one of the most talked about subjects on Twitter.com unless a major natural disaster has occured there or its team has won some major game.

Pacifica, however, has gained the distinction with no measurable damage, no injuries and no victory over a rival. All it took was a 3.7-magnitude tremblor a couple of miles outside its borders and a brief, albeit massive, power outage. 

According to Twitter, "Trending Topics algorithm identifies topics that are immediately popular, rather than topics that have been popular for a while or on a daily basis, to help people discover the "most breaking" news stories from across the world."

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Login to Twitter right now and check the trending topics. Sixth from the top, below "Pulitzer" (the awards just came out today) and above "Passover" (that's right: the Jewish festival that millions of people have celebrated for thousands of years) is little ol' "Pacifica". 

Talk about exposure. Thousands, maybe tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of people are tweeting about Pacifica and reading about it, too.

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