Top Twitter Trends of 2009
By Peter | December 18th, 2009
The internet was shaken to its core this week by the news that popular singer and girlfriend-puncher Chris Brown will no longer be using Twitter. Despite the terrible blow dealt by his absence on the popular social media site, Twitter shows no signs of shutting down their operation. In fact, they just released a list of their top-trending topics in 2009, revealing that, yes, people use the site for things other than reading tweets from Chris Brown.
The list of top Twitter trends is broken up into six categories: News Events, People, Movies, TV Shows, Sports, Technology and Hash Tags. Interestingly, they didn’t reveal actual numbers of tweets sent about each topic, but merely where it ranked on a top 10 list for each category. That’s probably good though, as we’d most likely all be embarrassed if we learned that, say, Adam Lambert prompted 50 or 100 times more tweets than something more traditionally discussion-worthy, like swine flu.
Speaking of H1N1, it showed up twice on the top 10 list for News Events, though it was surpassed by news about the Iranian elections. We can attribute a lot of that Twitter traffic to the fact that election protestors in that country were using the site as their main source of organization and communication. Incidentally, that fact may be the reason that Twitter, along with an Iranian pro-reformer site, were hacked yesterday by a group calling themselves “Iranian Cyber Army“.
In the People category of top-trending topics, the list was topped by Michael Jackson, with Susan Boyle and Adam Lambert rounding out the top three. And there, comfortably in the #5 spot? Chris Brown. Though given his behavior in the past year, it’s unlikely he’s in the top 10 because of his own fascinating tweets. So we can all hope that, somehow, Twitter can soldier on without him.
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Tags: Adam Lambert, Chris Brown, Iran, Iranian Cyber Army, Social Media, swine flu, Twitter
