BEST OF 2014 - TWITTER

People send more than 500 million Tweets per day. Each one contributes something special to Twitter, but only one is recognized as the “Golden Tweet,” a.k.a. the most-Retweeted Tweet of the year. This year, the honor goes to @TheEllenShow’s starry photo from the March Oscars telecast:

Lets have a look at what was trending on twitter this year globally

#WorldCup: The biggest sports story in 2014, especially on Twitter. Fans, players, teams and media sent over 672 million Tweets during the month-long tournament. At its peak, there were 618,725 Tweets sent per minute — the largest peak we measured this year — when Germany (@DFB_Team) took home the championship.

#BringBackOurGirls: In response to a mass kidnapping in Nigeria, millions of Tweets were sent mentioning #BringBackOurGirls. This map visualizes the hashtag’s global spread over a two-week period.

#IndyRef: Scottish citizens used Twitter to say “yes” or “no” regarding a referendum on independence from the UK in the days leading up to the vote in September. This interactive map of geotagged “yes” or “no” Tweets shows the global nature of the conversation, which spread well beyond Scotland. Fom the first debate through polling day, there were more than 3.75 million Tweets about the referendum.

#Hong Kong protests: When citizens of Hong Kong gathered to protest governmental electoral reforms, characterized by the hashtag #occupycentral, people over the world took to Twitter to add their thoughts. There were more than 2.3 million Tweets about what became known as the #UmbrellaRevolution. Here are the most shared photos, and here’s how the event played out on Twitter.

#BlackLivesMatter: There were more than 18 million Tweets about the #Ferguson protests in August, as charted in this visualization. In the hours following the grand jury’s decision in November, there were 3.5 million Tweets from across the U.S. Also tied to a similar grand jury decision in New York, this map shows how powerfully the hashtags #ICantBreathe and #BlackLivesMatter shaped the conversation on Twitter.

Top trending hashtags in INDIA

Rank	Hashtags	Description
1	#WorldCup2014	Refers to conversation around Football World Cup 2014 held in Brazil
2	#MH370	MH370 was a flight that disappeared on 8 March 2014
3	#MufflerMan	#MufflerMan refers to a campaign by Aam Aadmi Party
4	#MUFC	#MUFC refers to Football fans following Manchester United Football Club
5	#KashmirFloods	Update on JK flood relief operation by assisting the Indian army
6	#QuitAAP	Public outrage against Aam Aadmi Party
7	#IndvsEng	#IndvsEng refers to India vs England cricket match played
8	#Results2014	Information on the Lok Sabha elections results
9	#IPL7	Conversations around Pepsi Indian Premier League cricket tournament
10	#AusOpen	Conversations around 2014 Australian Open

Courtesy - Twitter