Twitter Releases Top Trends of 2010 for Various Categories

Twitter launched its year-end top trends list today. The top overall trends for 2010 were as follows:

1. Gulf Oil Spill

2. FIFA World Cup

3. Inception

4. Haiti Earthquake

5. Vuvuzela

6. Apple iPad

7. Google Android

8. Justin Bieber

9. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

10. Pulpo Paul

Twitter also broke down the top trends for several categories. The top trends for news events were:

1. Gulf Oil Spill

2. Haiti Earthquake

3. Pakistan Floods

4. Koreas Conflict

5. Chilean Miners Rescue

6. Chavez Tas Ponchao

7. Wikileaks Cablegate

8. Hurricane Earl

9. Prince Williams Engagement

10. World Aids Day

The top trends for people were:

1. Justin Bieber

2. Dilma Rouseff

3. Lady Gaga

4. Julian Assange

5. Mel Gibson

6. Lil Kim

7. Zilda Arns

8. Kate Middleton

9. Kim Hee Chul

10. Joannie Rochette

The top trends for movies were:

1. Inception

2. Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows

3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

4. Despicable Me

5. Karate Kid

6. The Last Airbender

7. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

8. The Expendables

9. The Chronicles of Narnia

10. Paranormal Activity 2

The Top TV trends were:

1. MTV Video Music Awards

2. Pretty Little Liars

3. True Blood

4. Walking Dead

5. Grammy Awards

6. Glee

7. Family Guy

8. CSI

9. MTV Movie Awards

10. American Music Awards

The top tech trends were:

1. Apple iPad

2. Google Android

3. Apple iOS

4. Apple iPhone

5. Call of Duty Black Ops

6. New Twitter

7. HTC

8. RockMelt

9. MacBook Air

10. Google Instant

The top sports trends were:

1. Lebron James

2. Wimbledon

3. Manchester United

4. Brock Lesnar

5. Celtics

6. Brett Favre

7. Tony Parker

8. Antonio Margarito

9. Blake Griffin

10. Mike Vick

Finally, the top hashtags were:

1. #rememberwhen

2. #slapyourself

3. #confessiontime

4. #thingsimiss

5. #ohjustlikeme

6. #wheniwaslittle

7. #haveuever

8. #icantlivewithout

9. #thankful

10. #2010disappointments

See what the top Twitter trends of last year were here.

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