The Biggest #News Stories on #Twitter in 2014 [INFOGRAPHIC]

The Biggest News Stories on #Twitter in 2014 [INFOGRAPHIC]

Twitter has now firmly established itself as both the source of breaking news and a hotbed of discussion for current affairs and world events, and 2014 was no exception.

Echelon Insights tracked 184.5 million Twitter mentions to see what America was talking about over the past 12 months, and found that the Ferguson grand jury and shooting were the most-discussed news topics on Twitter in 2014.

Election Day, the State of the Union address and the Donald Sterling/Los Angeles Clippers scandal were next.

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