Twitter Reveals Top Trends of 2009

Twitter chief scientist Abdur Chowdhury revealed the top Twitter trends of 2009 in a post on the Twitter Blog.

The winners were as follows (see the complete lists after the jump): #iranelection for News Events, Michael Jackson for People, Harry Potter for Movies, American Idol for TV Shows, Super Bowl for Sports, Google Wave for Technology and #musicmonday for Hash Tags.

Chowdhury wrote:

Among all the keywords, hashtags and phrases that proliferated throughout the year, one topic surfaced repeatedly.

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