Twitter analyzed the approximately 25 billion Tweets sent so far in 2010 and found that BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the top trend for the year. The complete list, from the Twitter Blog:
1: Gulf oil spill
2: FIFA World Cup
3: Inception
4: Haiti earthquake
5: vuvuzela
6: Apple iPad
7: Google Android
9: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
10: Pulpo Paul
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Since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill began on April 20, BP has been getting a lot of negative press, has been the butt of many YouTube parodies and has been generally lambasted on Twitter, Facebook and the rest of the Web. The company has been responding via a BP branded Gulf of Mexico response YouTube page, where they have formally apologized for the event, and they are now asking YouTube users to become their “friends”.
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Haven’t been paying attention to the news about the BP Oil Spill? Now you can get caught up in one minute with a new YouTube video in which the spill is re-enacted by cats. The juxtaposition of adorable cats, which everybody loves, and evil British Petroleum, who nobody loves right now, is pure genius. If you haven’t seen this clip yet, you must!
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