Who’s who and who’s hot? What’s in and what rocked!
Want to know the trends that got the world spinning last year? Here are the lists of lists of the 2012 Newsmakers from the top 3 social networks today.
Facebook has released their Year in Review,” outlining what created the most buzz this year, and what puts Facebook in a unique position is that they have over one billion users, and trillions of data points to analyze. And so, Facebook users shared the most buzzed about trends of 2012:
Top event: U.S. Presidential election
Top public figure: Barack Obama
Top political topic: Barack Obama
Top song: We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monáe) – Fun
Top movie: The Hunger Games
Top book: The Hunger Games (#1)
Most checked-in location: Times Square
Top technology: Instagram
Top television show: Duck Dynasty
Top sports topic: NY Giants
Top meme: TBH (“to be honest”)
Google also presented their “Zeitgeist” (which means “the spirit of the time”), revealing what people were most interested, or alternatively, what they wanted to know more about. Below are the top 10 searched terms on Google this year:
Whitney Houston
Gangnam Style
Hurricane Sandy
iPad 3
Diablo 3
Kate Middleton
Olympics 2012
Amanda Todd
Michael Clarke Duncan
BBB12
Twitter compiles not only the most retweeted images and tweets, but shares their take on the “pulse of the planet” through the “biggest conversations” of the year around single events that generate a large number of Tweets and Retweets. The biggest conversations this year on Twitter were:
The Summer Olympics in London
The Presidential Election (U.S.)
The MTV Music Awards
Euro 2012 (soccer)
The Super Bowl
Superstorm Sandy
UEFA Championship Semi-Finals
“Summer Wars” (Japan anime movie)
Whitney Houston
SOPA/PIPA
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