Twitter Publishes its Top Trends of 2010 From 25 Billion Tweets

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Twitter Publishes its Top Trends of 2010 From 25 Billion Tweets [blog.twitter.com]

From earthquakes and politics to popstars and hashtags, Twitter Trends are a window into what the world is talking about. In this edition of #Hindsight2010, we offer our list of the biggest Trends of the year.

An astounding 25 billion Tweets were sent in 2010. We analyzed all those Tweets to identify the year’s Top 10 Trends, as well as the leading Trends in eight categories: News Events, People, Movies, Television, Technology, World Cup, Sports and Hashtags. Each Trend in the Top 10 list includes multiple related terms, to give the most accurate view of the topics that people cared about most in 2010. (To find out more about how we define and calculate Trends, check out this blog post.)

Top 10 Twitter Trends of 2010
1. Gulf Oil Spill
2. FIFA World Cup
3. Inception
4. Haiti Earthquake
5. Vuvuzela
6. Apple iPad
7. Google Android
8. Justin Bieber
9. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
10. Pulpo Paul

[frontpage]

LOL. No mention of Iphone in the top ten. What is a Pulpo Paul?

[engine]

Paul was the Octopus that predicted the World Cup outcomes.

The full list of trends appear here

[yearinreview.twitter.com...]

On the tech trends, ipad is number 1

1.Apple iPad
2.Google Android
3.Apple iOS
4.Apple iPhone
5.Call of Duty Black Ops
6.New Twitter
7.HTC
8.RockMelt
9.MacBook Air
10.Google Instant

[BillyS]

Very telling.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

I did this in September, Britney Spears was #1 followed by Britney Spears Kiss. Telling, and filtered, indeed.

[johnnie]

Sigh... Justin Bieber yet again.

[ispy]

I tweeted about pies a whole bunch of times on twitter. People said they did not want to receive tweets about this.

[BillyS]

I tweeted about pies a whole bunch of times on twitter. People said they did not want to receive tweets about this.

That doesn't sound right to me. Are you sure you were using twitter?

Who doesn't like pie?!

[bhonda]

I found this relatively interesting - says a lot about the 'world' (or the world according to Twitter).

[HeadlessChicken]

i have no idea who Justin Bieber is, is he an SEO?

[internetheaven]

Telling, and filtered, indeed

Mm-hmm ... ;)

i have no idea who Justin Bieber is, is he an SEO?

No, he is our next sacrifice. (See South Park: Britney's New Look) Big one too, should end the recession ...

[wyfwyf113]

i have no idea who Justin Bieber is, is he an SEO?

you are right!