Like every year, Twitter rolls out Year In Review, which includes hot topics of the year, top stories, most popular hashtags and people on Twitter. For example, the most notable story on Twitter has been the historical democracy movement in Egypt.
Charlie Sheen stirred another kind of movement when he joined Twitter in March, becoming the most talked about actors of 2011. Strangely the most talked about movie was Thor, and what's more strange is that Harry Potter didn't even make it to top 5 movies. Like every year, Apple topped technology trends, with Mac App store at number one; iPad and iPhone are at number 6 and 7 respectively. Let's have a detailed look on what made people tweet and retweet ceaselessly in the year 2011:
Hashtags
#egypt
#tigerblood
#threewordstoliveby
#idontunderstandwhy
#japan
#improudtosay
#superbowl
#jan25
Hot Topics
Television: Pretty Little Liars, Two and a Half Men, The Craigslist Killer, Golden Globe Awards, People's Choice Awards.
Movies: Thor, The Dark Knight Rises, X-Men: First Class, Fast Five, Green Hornet.
World News: Mubarak's resignation, Raid in Osama Bin Laden, Japanese earthquake, Shooting of Gabriel Giffords, Gaddafi's death, Swine flu outbreak.
Music: Rebecca Black Friday, Nate Dogg, Femme Fatale, Gerry Rafferty, Gil Scott-Heron.
Tech: Mac App Store, Sony NGP, Guitar Hero, Mozilla Firefox, Duke Nukem Forever, iPad, iPhone, Nintendo 3DS, Mortal Kombat, iPod.
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Top Stories
Wael Ghonim became a symbol for the #Jan25 pro-democracy movement in Egypt
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Sohaib Athar inadvertently live-tweeted the raid on the Osama bin Laden compound.
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Daniel Morales reunite with his daughter after 11 years.
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Kevin Durant played a pick-up game of flag football with his followers
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The world embraced Japan during the March 11 earthquake and tsunami
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Julia Probst relays what the players are saying but the fans can't hear
"Julia Probst, an avid German football fan who is deaf, reads the lips of players and coaches and then tweets what they are saying. Her followers on Twitter get a second audio track that never plays on TV."
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Stefanie Gordon shared a chance encounter with a space shuttle
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Aaron Durand saved his mom's bookstore with a Tweet
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Roger Ebert gained a new voice after losing his ability to speak
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Maureen Evans delivers recipes to the palm of your hand
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Mike Massimino sent the first Tweet from space
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Mark Slavonia challenged Lance Armstrong to ride the world's steepest road
"He challenged Armstrong: if he could ride up the hill without stopping Mark would make a $10,000 donation to the LiveStrong charity. A year later, Lance Armstrong met the challenge and climbed the hill. Afterwards he said it was the steepest hill he’d ever tried to ride."
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