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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Qatar 2022, which is attempting to bring the FIFA World Cup to the Middle East for the first time ever, is getting a big kick from Facebook, as its page on the social network has drawn more than 500,000 fans.
The host nations for the 2018 and 2022 soccer tournaments will be announced Wednesday.
Qatar 2022 said its Facebook page has received Likes from countries including Egypt (90,000), Jordan (45,000), Saudi Arabia (38,000), Qatar (31,000), Lebanon (23,000), Nigeria (22,000), Palestine (18,000), Ghana (17,000), the United States (14,000), Kenya (14,000), Israel (10,000), and South Africa (6,000).
The organization added that U.S. English was the most common language used to access its Facebook page, at 265,000, followed by Arabic (113,000), U.K. English (60,000), and French (20,000).
