year 2012 on Twitter - the essence of what mattered most for the users

Tuesday, Twitter released a summary of the most important moments shared by users in less than 140 characters throughout the year. Entitled "year 2012 on Twitter", it gives an overview of what matters most to users of the social network: best tweets filled with meaning, trends, and new members, such as the Pope.

"Four years" are what the president of the United States Barack Obama has tweeted after he was recently re-elected. The three famous words received nearly 300,000 Favorites and retweets more than 816,000 since 7 November, claiming first place in the Tweets or 2012. However, it should be noted that the social network a little exaggerated when it comes to the number of favourites, which is less than the 300,000 ++ what he said. Of course, the president do so little time, but why rush it?

The second message is retweeted most of the year, according to "RIP pop artist Justin Bieber Avalanna. Tweet I love you "with more than 220 000 retweets. He also collected more than 100 favorites. He wrote the message after one of its younger fans from brain cancer.

But Twitter overcompensates, once again, the number of retweets Kouichi Yamadera message shared earlier this year in June. "Year 2012 on Twitter" claims 68 000, while social network count is off by a couple dozen. That said, his tweet is become more retweeted message of the Japan the year so far.

At a time when the eyes of the people on the Olympic Games in London, the event has raised 150 million tweets. Generated closing ceremony more than 116 000 messages per minute and victory in the sprint 200 metres Usain Bolt caused the greatest conversation focused on the Olympic Games in London with 80,000 tweets per minute.

Sandy hurricane is one of the most important events at the end of 2012, and it has had a major impact on Twitter as well.  Users share more than 20 million of related messages between October 27 and November 1 in New York City blackouts resulting in the use of the mobile device is expected to double in the past two days.

Other important events include the elections, the MTV Video Music Awards, the Super Bowl (Yes, the Patriots still lost), football championship Euro 2012 (soccer for those on the left side of the pond), the UEFA Champions League semi-final and the obsession of the 'Summer Wars', a Japanese animated film.

In the box "only on Twitter", moments that came to life on the social network, the curiosity rover made an appearance after Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA live-tweeted March down. The space also made an entry after astronauts share live images of the International Space Station.

When James Cameron hit shallow known to mankind, the bottom of the Mariana Trench found in the Pacific ocean, it has automatically qualified as the first man to tweet 35 755 metres or 10 916 m below sea level. It will probably hold that record for a period of time, unless someone else finds its deepest place Tweet from.

Other notable mentions include camera pool Olympics, the last voyage of the space shuttle Endeavour, the news of the pregnancy of the Duchess of Cambridge, tweets about the 1989 fall of the Berlin wall, rivals live-tweeting of a Nascar car, football legend Pelé answering questions of fan and the friendly conversation between Boxing's long date with Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield.

Twitter is known for its trending topics and summary 2012 social network does not disappoint. In the tags of the year (hash) as family guy, #nfl, #tcot (conversatives top on Twitter), #nowplaying (for sharing favorite music), rick ross, think like a man, at & t, ihop and #syria were the most popular trends on the social network.

Recently, the Pope joined Twitter, using a personal account, but that of another list of 'New voices' important new members?

The 2012 elections in the United States were very discussed on Twitter reaching more than 320,000 tweets per minute and obviously completely generated the impact to users. It is not surprising that French president Nicolas Sarkozy or UK Prime Minister David Cameron joined the Twitterer class this year.

Remarkable new members include some TV personalities such as Patrick Stewart, Ben Affleck, Ewan McGregor and Jeremy Clarkson, musical artists such as Neil Young, Adele, Ringo Starr and PSY, among others, such as Pelé, Princess Khaliya and Melinda Gates, each representative of sports, from religion and to "do good".

But what can most important for users of Twitter is the category of your year on Twitter. It provides a representation of the way subjects were used in tweets throughout 2012 displayed as circles of different sizes, depending on the number of retweets. It also gives a rough feedback on what is popular among followers.

The "Golden Tweet" category even once an appearance, but this time for individual users, and there is also the "Golden Follower". It is represented by the user than you or me more in 2012.

So, how was your 'year on Twitter?

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