'Need to follow some new people': Jill Abramson's NYT exit fills Twitter feeds with journo buzz

You know you follow too many journalists when your entire feed is about Jill Abramson

— Amanda Fiscina (@adfiscina) May 14, 2014

Jill Abramson jokes from journalists are breaking my newsfeed.

— Lily Herman (@lkherman) May 14, 2014

Jill Abramson, executive editor of the New York Times, is leaving the paper, Politico reported.

New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger wrote about the change, and named Abramson’s replacement, in a memo to staff:

Newsflash: Lib NYT replaces lib editor Jill Abramson with another lib editor. #yawn #fishwrapofrecord pic.twitter.com/B5vKJYCPGT

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) May 14, 2014

The subsequent buzz was enough to get Jill Abramson trending in the U.S.:

Without a doubt, a great deal of the reason Abramson trended was because of the amount of buzz about the story among journos:

Jill Abramson is out at The New York Times: If you're a journalist, your Twitter feed exploded shortly after 2… http://t.co/EkwuQ0dIMs

— RodBScherich (@Socio101) May 14, 2014

I made a Venn diagram about jill abramson pic.twitter.com/kwJPijcv6J

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) May 14, 2014

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Pretty sure the trending of Jill Abramson is due to all the journalists. Bacon donut burgers on the other hand, I got nothin.

— NEB (@IbeNEB) May 14, 2014

I must follow too many journalists. My Twitter feed just blew up on Jill Abramson leaving as editor of @nytimes. Waiting for the real story

— Charlie McCollum (@charlie_mccollu) May 14, 2014

I need to follow some new people on Twitter. Pretty sure most Americans don't know who Jill Abramson is, yet my feed is consumed by her now.

— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) May 14, 2014