Trumblog

This year has been the year of Twitter. From  topping the search engine top searches lists, being the word of they year and doing some major deals with Google and Bing to provide a source of real time search.  With Twitter’s release of their top trends for 2009 you can see why this was the case.  More than the lists of any of the search engines Twitter’s top trends lists truly represents the year that was.

Lists, plural? Yup, like Google, Twitter wasn’t content to give us just one list, but broke it out by category; News Events, People, Movies, TV Shows, Sports, Technology and Hash Tags.  Here they are…

News Events

1. #iranelection
2. Swine Flu
3. Gaza
4. Iran
5. Tehran
6. #swineflu
7. AIG
8. #uksnow
9. Earth Hour
10. #inaug09

People

1. Michael Jackson
2. Susan Boyle
3. Adam Lambert
4. Kobe (Bryant)
5. Chris Brown
6. Chuck Norris
7. Joe Wilson
8. Tiger Woods
9. Christian Bale
10. A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez)

Movies

1. Harry Potter
2. New Moon
3. District 9
4. Paranormal Activity
5. Star Trek
6. True Blood
7. Transformers 2
8. Watchmen
9. Slumdog Millionaire
10. G.I. Joe

TV Shows

1. American Idol
2. Glee
3. Teen Choice Awards
4. SNL (Saturday Night Live)
5. Dollhouse
6. Grey’s Anatomy
7. VMAS (Video Music Awards)
8. #bsg (Battlestar Galatica)
9. BET Awards
10. Lost

Sports (Teams, Events, Leagues)

1. Super Bowl
2. Lakers
3. Wimbledon
4. Cavs (Cleveland Cavaliers)
5. Superbowl
6. Chelsea
7. NFL
8. UFC 100
9. Yankees
10. Liverpool

Technology

1. Google Wave
2. Snow Leopard
3. Tweetdeck
4. Windows 7
5. CES
6. Palm Pre
7. Google Latitude
8. #E3
9. #amazonfail
10. Macworld

Hash Tags

1. #musicmonday
2. #iranelection
3. #sxsw
4. #swineflu
5. #nevertrust
6. #mm
7. #rememberwhen
8. #3drunkwords
9. #unacceptable
10. #iwish

A word about timing. All of the search engine’s ended 2009 a month early and posted their yearly top search terms at the beginning of the month.  I understand the need to avoid the news cycle black hole at the end of the year, but it just feels too soon.  I’m glad that Twitter held out for a couple more weeks and waited till midway through the month to release their top trends for the year.  Maybe that’s why their list seems to best capture 2009′s zeitgeist.