{"id":84606,"date":"2009-12-16T03:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Twitter-Trending-Topics-for-2009-129865.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-16T03:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T08:37:00","slug":"twitter-trending-topics-for-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/84606","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Trending Topics for 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the year comes to an end, there’s two than more weeks left but who’s really counting, it’s time to sit back and marvel at just how much we achieved in 2009. And if you’re Twitter, you may even have a reason to be proud of yourself, the microblogging service exploded onto the scene and secured its foothold in the mainstream. Over the year, several topics got the most attention from the Twitterati and the site has now released the Top Twitter Trends of 2009 complete with Michael Jackson and #iranelection. <\/p>\n

Twitter divided the trending topics into several categories, News Events, People, Hashtags and so on, and came up with a top 10 for each of them. In the News Events category, and likely on Twitter overall, topics about the Iran elections dominated coming in at number one, #iranelection, number four, “Iran” and again at number five with “Tehran.” Swine flu was also a popular topic, if popular is the right word for it, making it to number two and coming in again at number six. <\/p>\n

“Among all the keywords, hashtags, and phrases that proliferated throughout the year, one topic surfaced repeatedly. Twitter users found the Iranian elections the most engaging topic of the year. The terms #iranelection, Iran and Tehran were all in the top-21 of Trending Topics, and #iranelection finished in… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the year comes to an end, there’s two than more weeks left but who’s really counting, it’s time to sit back and marvel at just how much we achieved in 2009. And if you’re Twitter, you may even have a reason to be proud of yourself, the microblogging service exploded onto the scene and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}