Anderson Silva makes top-10 Twitter Trending Topics list for 2011
Halfway through 2011, a billion Tweets are sent every five days. For perspective, every day, the world writes the equivalent of…
Halfway through 2011, a billion Tweets are sent every five days. For perspective, every day, the world writes the equivalent of a 10 million-page book in Tweets.
Using Twitter helped a homeless man reunite with his daughter, sent two Cincinnati Reds fans to spring training on a player’s dime, and even helped residents of a small city in Korea find fresh water after its supply was cut off.
Here are the top Trending Topics for the first half of 2011, divided into the two most popular categories:
POP CULTURE
Rebecca Black – pop singer
Femme Fatale – newly-released Britney Spears album
Charlie Sheen – actor
#tigerblood – hashtag popularized by Charlie Sheen
Nate Dogg – rapper
Anderson Silva – Brazilian mixed martial artist
Tom & Jerry – famous cartoon
Mumford & Sons – British rock band
Bieber alert – referring to artist Justin Bieber
Queen Gaga – referring to artist Lady Gaga
WORLD EVENTS/NEWS
AH1N1 – Swine Flu
Mubarak – former Egyptian President
Easter – Christian holiday
Cairo – capital of Egypt
#prayforjapan – sentiment following the March earthquake and tsunami
Chernobyl – site of nuclear disaster in 1986
Libia/Libya – site of an ongoing civil war
Fukushima – Japanese nuclear power plant
William & Kate – Newly-named Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
Gadafi – Libyan political leader
Twitter’s Trending Topics algorithm identifies topics that are immediately popular, rather than topics that have been popular for a while or on a daily basis, to help people discover the “most breaking” news stories from across the world. .
