Top Tweets and Twitterers of 2011

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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