Early Start with John Berman & Christine Romans

What's trending for August 10, 2012

Pop stars reign supreme in Forbes magazine’s list of social networking superstars. Rihanna tops the list with 23.8 million Twitter followers and 59.6 million Facebook fans, followed by Lady Gaga, Eminem, Justin Bieber, and Katy Perry.

 Also, in China, an angry grandmother has found a new way to deal with fast traffic. She dressed an inflatable doll in lacy lingerie and tied it to a tree near the crosswalk, telling the UK’s Daily Mirror that she hoped drivers would slow down if she “could give them something worth looking at.”

 And on its third full day on Mars, the Curiosity Rover has sent back the first 360-degree color pictures of the Red Planet.