Why is #songsincode popular right now?

Song titles/lyrics are converted to programming-style code for our amusement. Syntax errors abound...
how it started: http://yy.vc/songsincode . The best examples have been collected at http://bit.ly/rtJ8k http://bit.ly/dXzIX and http://bit.ly/2NQYBC (as of September 13 at 06:22 UTC)

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Sep 13	+24 days	Song titles/lyrics are converted to programming-style code for our amusement. Syntax errors abound... how it started: http://yy.vc/songsincode . The best examples have been collected at http://bit.ly/rtJ8k http://bit.ly/dXzIX and http://bit.ly/2NQYBC #songsincode Defined by Anonymous via web September 13 at 06:22 UTC
Sep 13	+24 days	Song titles/lyrics are converted to programming-style code for our amusement. Syntax errors abound... how it started: http://yy.vc/songsincode . The best examples have been collected at http://bit.ly/rtJ8k , http://bit.ly/dXzIX and http://bit.ly/2NQYBC #songsincode Defined by Anonymous via web September 13 at 06:22 UTC
Sep 12	+23 days	Song titles/lyrics are converted to programming-style code for our amusement. Syntax errors abound... how it started: http://yy.vc/songsincode . The best examples have been collected at http://xoa.petdance.com/Songs_in_code , http://retrocode.blogspot.com/2009/09/songsincode-lyrics-for-programmers.html , http://songsincodedb.com/post/top and http://juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2009/08/22/songs-in-code/ #songsincode Defined by Anonymous via web September 12 at 22:19 UTC
Aug 24	+4 days	Song titles/lyrics are converted to programming-style code for our amusement. Syntax errors abound... how it started: http://yy.vc/songsincode #songsincode Defined by Anonymous via web August 24 at 08:38 UTC
Aug 24	+4 days	Song titles/lyrics are converted to programming-style code for our amusement. Syntax errors abound... how it started: http://yy.vc/songsincode SMD!!! #songsincode Defined by Anonymous via web August 24 at 04:12 UTC
Aug 22	+1 day	Song titles/lyrics are converted to programming-style code for our amusement. Syntax errors abound... how it started: http://yy.vc/songsincode #songsincode Defined by Anonymous via web August 22 at 13:44 UTC
Aug 22	+1 day	Song titles/lyrics are converted to programming-style code for our amusement. Syntax errors abound... how it started: http://www.wait-till-i.com/2009/08/21/wow-so-that-is-how-memes-happen-songsincode/ #songsincode Defined by Anonymous via web August 22 at 08:25 UTC
Aug 21	+1 day	Song titles/lyrics are converted to programming-style code for our amusement. Syntax errors abound... how it started: http://www.wait-till-i.com/2009/08/21/wow-so-that-is-how-memes-happen-songsincode/ this is still gaining momentum... #songsincode Defined by Anonymous via web August 21 at 16:45 UTC
Aug 21	+1 day	It was started as a little bit of fun within the Frog VLE development team (http://www.frogtrade.com) and escalated to a trending topic approximately 8 1/2 hours after the first tweet. Song titles/lyrics are converted to programming-style code for our amusement. Syntax errors abound... #songsincode Defined by Anonymous via web August 21 at 16:22 UTC
Aug 21	+17 hours	Songs in code are songs, but written down like it's code. Which can be any programming language. It's like translating a foreign song to your own language. In this case the language is programming code. It was started as a little bit of fun within the Frog VLE development team (http://www.frogtrade.com) and escalated to a trending topic approximately 8 1/2 hours after the first tweet. #songsincode Defined by Anonymous via web August 21 at 07:48 UTC

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