Twitter has released the most popular keywords and hashtags for 2011.
This year saw the social networking site grow to over 100 million users, and the range of topics users searched and tweeted about, from the Egyptian uprising to Charlie Sheen’s dietary preferences (#tigerblood, apparently), illustrates the variety of ways people are engaging through the site on a global scale.
Top Hastags
#egypt
#tigerblood
#threewordstoliveby
Top movie mentions
Thor
The Dark Knight Rises
X-Men: First Class
Top actors
Charlie Sheen
Macaulay Culkin
Ricky Gervais
Top actresses
Elizabeth Taylor
Mila Kunis
Anne Hathaway
Top tech players
Mac App Store
Sony NGP
Guitar Hero
Top food and drink terms
McLobster
Fried Kool-Aid
Guinness
Twitter also revealed that Salman Rushdie, Nelson Mandela (Foundation) and The Pope are now bona-fide tweeters.
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