Justin Bieber, the teenage pop singer, has become the biggest étoile, star 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 questions about his musique and l’amour 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 liste of “trending topics” for several months earlier this year. In April this an he came seventh – bizarrely – on a liste of the 50 most populaire women on the internet, compiled par 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 musique vidéos were targeted, with abusive commentaires 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 posté asking where Bieber should tour suivant – with no restrictions on location. The despotic North Korea, followed par Israel, has topped the list, with just over half a million votes 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 liste of “trending topics” for several months earlier this year. In April this an he came seventh – bizarrely – on a liste of the 50 most populaire women on the internet, compiled par 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 musique vidéos were targeted, with abusive commentaires 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 posté asking where Bieber should tour suivant – with no restrictions on location. The despotic North Korea, followed par Israel, has topped the list, with just over half a million votes having been cast. The singer was forced to tweet confirming he is alive.
