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Obama tweet tops Twitter’s annual review list

Justin Beiber takes second spot behind US president

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Twitter released its annual review of topics and tweets for 2012 based on all the conversations that happened over the year.

Twitter divided the review into five categories; Golden Tweets, The pulse of the planet, Only on Twitter, Trends and New voices.

The golden tweets were those which caught everyone’s attention because they were retweeted the maximum. The foremost tweet, and no points for guessing this one, was Barack Obama’s tweet on winning the second term in the US presidential elections: “Four more years" accompanied by a picture of him hugging his wife Michelle Obama. This was retweeted 8,17,500 times by users in over 200 countries making it the most retweeted tweet of 2012.

This Barack Obama tweet is the most retweeted of 2012.
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This Barack Obama tweet is the most retweeted of 2012.

Other major events of the year included the Summer Olympics 2012 dubbed the first social media Olympics. The 16-day sporting event generated 150 million tweets. The most discussed athlete was Usain Bolt who generated 80000 tweets per minute in any competition related conversation.

The US elections were also one of the most talked about on Twitter with 31 million tweets generated on the election day alone. On the day of the results, users were churning out 327452 tweets per minute. Other major events included Hurricane Sandy which between 27 October and 1 November generated 20 million tweets. Whitney Houston’s death on 11 February was also a major tweet generator in 2012 with some 10 million tweets (73,662 tweets per minute).

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Justin Beiber’s tribute to his fan.

This year also saw political developments being covered aggressively on social media. Twitter was at the centre of the conversations with users from across the globe sharing first-hand information about political developments. The elections in Egypt, civil war in Syria, the infamous Ugandan guerilla leader Kony and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei were among those that made up the ‘For a cause’ conversations on Twitter.

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Tweet from the deepest place on the earth.

Rounding off the list is a list of high profile people who joined twitter in 2012. It includes Jeremy Clarkson of BBC’s Top Gear, singers like Adele, PSY, Gwen Stefani, football legend Pele and Pope Benedict XVI.

You can also get your own best Twitter moments of 2012 with Vizify. Users will be directed to Vizify.com, where they can sign in with their Twitter account to get a personal infographic of “Your Year on Twitter".

You can visit 2012.twitter.com for more details.

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Published: 12 Dec 2012, 03:18 PM IST
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