Twitter’s Hot Topics of 2011
December has arrived, which means a host of internet entities will be dropping end-of-the-year data on us as the month rolls toward its inevitable conclusion and into 2012. Twitter has been fairly quick to the draw, and is already on the third of five entries in its 2011 Year In Review.
The first two pieces cataloged the major stories that flashed through its stream and the deluge of new high-profile users the service has taken on in the previous eleven months. Both of these lists are interesting to at least a fleeting degree, but the good stuff is in the third entry, Hot Topics, which was released today.
The trendiest food topic this year? McLobster. World news story? Mubarak’s resignation. And then there’s the top hashtags for the year, those indicators of Twitter power-use. We were given the following:
- #egypt
- #tigerblood
- #threewordstoliveby
- #idontunderstandwhy
- #japan
- #improudtosay
- #superbowl
- #jan25
Major world events, the Super Bowl, and some Twitter memes. And #tigerblood in second place for the year? I think it’s fair to say that Charlie Sheen is, indeed, #winning. As the only hashtag on the list that is identifiable with an individual, Sheen hit a vein of marketing gold when his maniacal wordsmithing took us into previously uncharted oceans of quotable nonsense. Egomaniacal brilliance.
