Gourmet & Condé Nast: Twitter's Hot Trending Topics

Foodies worldwide woke up to find all the major news sources reporting, 'Gourmet Magazine to Close says Condé Nast'. And although you can get the "official" news from trusted sources like NY Times, Chicago Tribune, LA Times and the Associated Press, there's nothing quite like honest-to-goodness real-time news from Twitter.

Twitter is great for quick, RAW news. With any hot breaking news story that makes Twitter's popular topics, Tweeters' are genuine, sometimes over-the-top and blatantly honest. What you see is what you get from Twitter. They'll bare their hearts as they Tweet. As reported in a previous article, 'Zombieland Box Office Hit is Twitter's Hot Trending Topic,' it's evident that Twitter rules the trends.

Here's just a small sample of more than 4200 Gourmet Tweets generated in the last hour.

• "Am so sad the Gourmet magazine is closing. I have been reading it for years. sadness"
• "My heart is BROKEN; utterly broken. Conde Nast closed Gourmet Magazine this morning.Excuse me while I go cry then cook something in its honor"
• "I have to admit, I never thought the NYT would outlast Gourmet Magazine. But there you have it."
• "I feel guilty for not buying Gourmet in awhile. I love that magazine."
• "I don't have an MBA but news that you cant make money selling Gourmet magazine in this foodie-world is shocking to me "
• "As in Gourmet mag? noooo!!! That is such a great magazine with amazing recipes and the photography... Oh the photos!!"
• "Let me get this straight: Gourmet is dead, yet Sandra Lee still has a magazine?"
• "Gourmet magazine is closing? BASTARDS."

Twitter says, "Gourmet is a popular topic on Twitter right now. The magazine is being shut down after 68 years." As noted in the above article, Gourmet Magazine has been around since 1940. It was an icon in the Food Porn world. What will we do without them? Go out to eat?