The top trends on Twitter in 2010; World Cup, Bieber and oil spills

Justin Bieber just about managed to beat Paul, the Magic Octopus, to be the most tweeted celebrity of 2010 according to Twtter’s list of the top tweets of 2010.

The annual list, which was released today, aggregates the most montioned events celebrities and topics on Twitter over the past year.

Reflecting the social network’s male-centric audience, the top 10 tweets of 2010 include trends for “FIFA World Cup”, Vuvuzela, “Pulpo Paul” (the talking octopus) and Inception. For the nerds in the audience Apple iPad, Google Android and “Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows” also did well. “Haiti Earthquake” was the most tweeted world event, save for the World Cup, while Justin Bieber was the most tweeted celebrity.

The mention nearest Ireland get in the top tweets for 2010 at number 5 in the Sports category with the term “Celtics.” Although this is a reference to the Boston Celtics Basketball team it postion was probably helped by the Scottish Football club.

The full lists, by category, are,

Top Trends for 2010

Gulf Oil Spill

FIFA World Cup

Inception

Haiti Earthquake

Vuvuzela

Apple iPad

Google Android

Justin Bieber

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

Pulpo Paul

News Events

Gulf Oil Spill

Haiti Earthquake

Pakistan Floods

Koreas Conflict

Chilean Miners Rescue

Chavez Tas Ponchao

Wikileaks Cablegate

Hurricane Earl

Prince Williams Engagement

World Aids Day

People

Justin Bieber

Dilma Rouseff

Lady Gaga

Julian Assange

Mel Gibson

Lil Kim

Zilda Arns

Kate Middleton

Kim Hee Chul

Joannie Rochette

Movies

Inception

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Despicable Me

Karate Kid

The Last Airbender

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

The Expendables

The Chronicles of Narnia

Paranormal Activity 2

Television

MTV Video Music Awards

Pretty Little Liars

True Blood

Walking Dead

Grammy Awards

Glee

Family Guy

CSI

MTV Movie Awards

American Music Awards

Technology

Apple iPad

Google Android

Apple iOS

Apple iPhone

Call of Duty Black Ops

New Twitter

HTC

RockMelt

MacBook Air

Google Instant

World Cup

FIFA World Cup

Vuvuzela

Pulpo Paul

Dunga

Diego Maradona

Cristiano Ronaldo

Cala Boca Galvao

Lionel Messi

Oranje

Felipe Melo

Sport

Lebron James

Wimbledon

Manchester United

Brock Lesnar

Celtics

Brett Favre

Tony Parker

Antonio Margarito

Blake Griffin

Mike Vick

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#thankful

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