A picture of the Empire State Building bathed in rainbow lights is spreading like wildfire, thanks to the tonight's passage of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in New York. And while New York's tallest building is rainbow colored at the moment, it wasn't a last-minute change.
"Empire State Building" is now a trending topic on Twitter, thanks to thousands of tweets and retweets of the TwitPic, which depicts the tallest building in New York City in red, orange, purple, blue and green lights. Twitter search is on fire, and almost all of the discussion is about the same image.
The picture definitely wasn't taken today, though. The exact same image has been around for at least a week and may in fact be older. In fact, it's been cloudy all day in New York City and a layer of fog currently surrounds the Empire State Building, so there's no way this picture was taken today.