Picture taken from 248am.com

Kim Kardashian launched in the past few days two new branches of Millions of Milkshakes in Kuwait and Bahrain. I was checking the video Mark posted and it was funny to see how people reacted to Kim arriving at Millions of Milkshakes. It’s like everyone went crazy and the same thing happened in Bahrain too.

I would love to see how Lebanese would react to Kim Kardashian’s visit if Millions of Milkshakes ever opens in Lebanon. I don’t expect it to be any different from what I saw in the videos below.

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Video taken by Mark at the Kuwait opening

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Updated: Video from Kuwait & Bahrain Openings

Picture taken from Zaitunaybay.com

LebanonFiles reported today that restaurants at the Zaitunay Bay are not doing well and Solidere is seriously considering closing down the whole thing given the bad economic situation and the lack of tourists.

I don’t know how accurate this piece of news is, but the solution is definitely not by closing it down, but by lowering the incredibly high rent prices. I have already discussed this matter back in February as I was wondering if it’s really profitable to operate at the Zaitunay Bay.

I guess we will know the answer soon.

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Ex-PM Saad Hariri topped the list, followed by Al Jazeera English Middle East based Correspondent Sherine Tadros, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Lebanese bloggers Imad Bazzi and Mustapha Hamoui, Lebanese Journalist Shada Omar, Journalist and Author of the best selling book ‘Wadi Abou Jamil’ on Jews of Lebanon Nada Abdelsamad, Lebanese news portal Naharnet, Al Jazeera’s Middle East Correspondent Rula Al Amin, and British Ambassador Tom Fletcher.

Here’s the list:
1- Saad Hariri @HaririSaad
2- Sherine Tadros @SherineT
3- Najib Mikati @Najib_Mikati
4- Imad Bazzi @TrellaLB
5- Mustapha Hamoui @BeirutSpring
6- Shada Omar @ShadaOmar
7- Nada Abdelsamad @NadaAbdelSamad
8- Naharnet @Naharnet
9- Rula Al Amin @RulaAmin
10- Tom Fletcher @HMATomFletcher

The list was the result of study done by Portland and constitutes the most the most comprehensive map yet produced of connectivity between influencers across the region. “Portland has analysed the influencers in each country and then ranked them in terms of how many other key tweeters in the Middle East follow them.”

Congrats to Lebanese Bloggers Mustapha from the BeirutSpring and Imad Bazzi from Trella.org!

As for the Top 10 most connected Twitter users in the Middle East, they are as follows:

1- Sultan Al Qassemi @SultanAlQassemi UAE
2- Dima Khatib @Dima_Khatib Qatar
3- Wael Ghonim @Ghonim Egypt
4- Mohamed El Baradei @ElBaradei Egypt
5- HH Sheikh Mohammed @HHSkhMohd UAE
6- Nabeel Rajab @NABEELRAJAB Bahrain
7- Rania Al Abdullah @QueenRania Jordan
8- Khalid AlKhalifa @KhalidalKhalifa Bahrain
9- Maryam Alkhawaja @MARYAMALKHAWAJA Bahrain
10- Turki Al-Dakhil @TurkiAldakhil Saudi Arabia

You can check out Top 10 lists from other Arab countries [Here].

Are they really funny or am I missing something? The only funny thing I found is they are drinking Red Bull in a Buzz ad.