Newsletter Sign-up

Prompt's Blog

What the world was 'tweeting' about in 2009

28 December 2009


Twitter Chief Scientist, Abdur Chowdhury announced Twitter's top trending topics of 2009, reminding us of some of this year's most notable events.

Michael Jackson topped the micro blogging site's trending list of people, while Harry Potter and the Twilight saga's, New Moon led the pack for movies. The swine flu made a few appearances across multiple categories, Google Wave led the tech category (Tweetdeck came in third, and Windows 7 came in fourth), the New York Yankees (Woot!) made the top ten in the sports category, and #musicmonday was the most used hashtag in 2009.

Click here for the complete lists.


Labels: ,


Subscribe
to the Feed


Jump to the
Tech Toons


About Prompt


The Authors:

This blog is written by the Prompt team which is split between UK and US offices. The flag preceding the author's name indicates their location.



Recent posts

Links

Archives