By Courtney on December 16th, 2009 in PR+New Media 2.0 |
In the spirit of releasing the typical end-of-the-year trends and stats (which I personally LOVE), Twitter has come out with the Top Twitter Trends of 2009. Twitter studied data to determine what has “captured global attention” in the following categories: News Events, People, Movies, TV Shows, Sports, Technology and Hash Tags.
Most interesting to both Twitter and myself is that the Iran elections proved to be the most engaging topic of the year, taking 3 of the top 5 slots in the News Events category, including the #1 position. To me, this was the most powerful example of the effect of social media on people worldwide. Another dominant news story in ’09, the H1N1 virus (or swine flu) also made it on two of the top 10 lists - #2 on the News Events list and the 4th most popular Hash Tag. I guess people really are getting their news from Twitter?
Other top honors include, Michael Jackson for People, Harry Potter for Movies (calm down, New Moon came in second), American Idol for TV Shows, Super Bowl for Sports, Google Wave for Technology and #musicmonday for Hash Tags. Check out the full list here.
And for those of you wondering, Tiger Woods showed up as #8 on the list of top People tweeted about. Perhaps this list was created prior to last week? One has to assume …