Top Twitter Trends & Tweets Of 2010

Twitter released its top trends of 2010, which include the World Cup and the BP oil spill. CNET.com’s Natali Morris reports.

Twitter breaks down its list by news event, people, movies, television, technology, world cup, sports, and hashtags.

Justin Bieber is the only living human on Twitter’s list of top trends of 2010. The crooning 16-year-old heartthrob holds the eighth spot on Twitter’s year-end list, behind Google Android and Apple iPad. Justin, who boast more than six milllion followers on the website, was since a force to be reckoned with on Twitter that website bosses had to change the rules of the website to stop Biebs from being a daily trending topic.

The top hashtag for the year was #rememberwhen, referring to the trend of users reminiscing about happier times.

Other top trends included the vuvuzela and Pulpo Paul, the World Cup-predicting octopus who died earlier this fall.

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As 2010 comes to a close, the web’s leading microblogging website also looks back on the year that brought a flurry of buzzworthy quotes to the mainstream. On Tuesday, Twitter Inc. released what bosses believe were the 10 Most Powerful Tweets of 2010, spanning topics from triumph at the World Cup, to tragedy in Haiti, to matrimony in the monarchy.

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Eight percent of the seventy-four percent of American adults who use the internet are Twitter users, and one in five say they post updates about their personal lives at least once a day, according to a report released Thursday by The Pew Research Center.

African-Americans and Latinos are more than twice as likely to use Twitter as White web surfers. Eighteen percent of Hispanic internet users and 13 percent of black internet users tweet, compared to just five percent of white internet users.
Meanwhile, young adults are more likely than older adults to use the microblogging service, which had 175 million registered users as of Sept. 2010.