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Subscribe to RSSThe TODAY anchors chat about Twitter's newly released list of its 2012 highlights, including the photo of President Obama that has become the most retweeted in history, and a few of the most-talked about trending topics.
(Reuters) - An election victory tweet from President Barack Obama — "Four more years" with a picture of him hugging his wife -- was the most retweeted ever, but the U.S. election was topped by the Olympics as the most tweeted event this year.
Obama's tweet was retweeted (repeated) more than 810,000 times, Twitter said as it published a list of the most tweeted events in 2012.
"Within hours, that Tweet simultaneously became the most retweeted of 2012, and the most retweeted ever. In fact, retweets of that simple message came from people in more than 200 countries around the world," Twitter spokeswoman Rachael Horwitz said.
Twitter users were busiest during the final vote count for the presidential elections, sending 327,452 tweets per minute on election night on their way to a tally of 31 million election tweets for the day.
The 2012 Olympic Games in London had the most overall tweets of any event, with 150 million sent over the 16 days.
Usain Bolt's golden win in the 200 meters topped 80,000 tweets per minute but he did not achieve the highest Olympic peak on Twitter. That was seen during the closing ceremony when 115,000 tweets per minute were sent as 1990s British pop band the Spice Girls performed.
Avalanna Routh via Twitter
Syria, where a bloody civil war still plays out, was the most talked about country in 2012 but sports and pop culture dominated the tally of tweets.
Behind Obama was pop star Justin Beiber. His tweet, "RIP Avalanna. i love you" sent when a six-year-old fan died from a rare form of brain cancer, was retweeted more than 220,000 times.
Third most repeated in 2012 was a profanity-laced tweet from Green Bay Packers NFL player TJ Lang, when he blasted a controversial call by a substitute referee officiating during a referee dispute. That was retweeted 98,000 times.
This was the third year running that the microblogging site published its top Twitter trends, offering a barometer to assess the biggest events in social media.
Superstorm Sandy, which slammed the densely populated U.S. East Coast in late October, killing more than 100 people, flooding wide areas and knocking out power for millions, attracted more than 20 million tweets between October 27 and November 1.
European football made the list of top tweets when Spain's Juan Mata scored as his side downed Italy 4-0 in the Euro 2012 final -- sparking 267,200 tweets a minute.
News of pop star Whitney Houston's death in February generated more than 10 million tweets, peaking at 73,662 per minute.
Romantic comedy "Think Like a Man" was the most tweeted movie this year, topping "The Hunger Games", "The Avengers" and "The Dark Knight Rises."
Rapper Rick Ross who notched his fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart this year, was the most talked about music artist.
See the full list for Twitter 2012 here.
(Editing by Rodney Joyce)
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Wow.....that should make Mr. Obama feel good even though he CANNOT run a country.
and you can only dream of running one,hell probably cant run your own life.
panther look, you probably CAN'T spell
That's what he is. A Twitter!
No, he is the top twit.
takes one to know one but the president is too classy for trashy niki.
panther look, yeh real classy did you really mean as*y
This is News, really hmmm What about The Monster (Unions) In Michigan, or the f-16s that are be given to morsi and the muslim brotherhood, of bengazhi, or the fact that the GOP have a proposal for a Budget, This is What News people should be talking about, Justin beiber will go away someday, That little idiot cant stay around without pulling a lohan, and dont worry obama has a few court dates he will regret, do you think we believe you were born in the US, well guess what your Birth Certificate is Fake and we have proof
take your pharmacueticals and go to bed you lost birth certificate or not histiry will look at fools like you and roll over with laughter hell i am laughing now.
hey pantherm Im a Veteran and i actually care about this country unlike you, the welfare leech that you are. how many foodstamps do you sell a year. I work Hard for my Little Income, i would rather go hungry than be you.
oh and if you would actually watch the real news and not the liberal media you would find out that obamas eligilbity is being tested in federal court in 3 different states and they have 17 different specialist that have determined that his long form Birth Certificate is a fraud, but hey you believe what you want, but hey ask your self this one question why can you not see his background, why did he pay big money to hide his past. why was he not vetted. but hey if you want to live like an idiot and a liberal go ahead, i would rather be a free thinker then a robot.
rather have obama than mitt the flip flopper
oh yeah the american people really know how mitt really is after all
mitt and paul ryan lost their own states
that twit still cares about you and fights for you regardless,ido ,spuds and robert by the way the ryan budget does not bring defecits down or balance the budget for 28 yrs,fail.
panther look, you really should have spell check.
Oh yeah sherrry girl duh....the democrats in the house and senate haven't voted for any of Obamas' budgets...not one yes vote...that tells that even his own party doesn't trust his economic policy....how could you be so uninformed and dumb enought to vote for a car wreck waiting to happen (Obama)? But that's right...the only thing that matters to you idiot liberals is abortions and gay rights...oh yeah...and all the freebees...duh.
its been 4 yrs already no wreck yet he kept your silly ass out of conflicts and putting wars on the credit card,you know cause you care about your children and all..ha.my ass, how about you tell those reprobates not to tank our economy by jeopordizing our credit rating like they did last year your own consevatives are destroying the economy,by the way if you went to public school thats a freebie got pell grants thats a freebie unemploymentinsurance thats a freebie except its not we all pay for it because we believe in equal opportunity for all and every one gets a shot including lunatics like you.get over it you lost and the next 4 yrs will be o.k. cant do worse than the last 12.
4 more yrs of the relentless bull sh$# and uncontrollable spending. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
does that mean george dubya bush had a mental disorder he was spending and you and your ilk kept your mouths shut ,who the hell cuts taxes at war time,the rich got more money and our soldiers had to pay for their own meals while in the hospital ,fight without proper body armour and faulty equipment, yeah mental disorder indeed.
panther puss..if you liberals are doing so good for our country...why are all the big liberal states like california,washington,new york,ect. broke? You have to be smarter than your post...we can't keep spending money we don't have...how can you not understand that..? In 4 years you liberals are gonna look like some real idiots.
Good point mcbeef. I can easily refute you however with my powerful liberal logic. Okay see the thing is.. Well actually wait..Uh..Uh..Um..Wait no I had something for this..Wait just give me a second!..UH..Ummmmm....BUSH IS A STOOPID POOPOO HEAD!!!!!!! See I knew I come up with a logical argument for if you gave me a moment.
And by the way panther...I remember coming home from overseas and seeing all your liberal heroes at the airport yelling at me and calling my parents filthy names and I remember how hard it was to go to college and have your liberal heroes telling me I was a killer and had no right to go to school...yeah you liberals with your double standard are some real dandies...you should be real proud ....
its real funny how GOP supporters still hate on Obama after we blew them out in the election. And all of sudden every liberal in on foodstamps to them but actually most liberals are college educated, and look at the state that are democratic states. They have the best education in the country compared to the Gop states which ranks last in education. And you guys are still worrying about his birth certificate? Thats pure comedy how dumb and racist people are in this country. Robert Clarkson you sound worst than donald trumpster with your hate. I wish you would do another tour and go somewhere else with your sour self. I hope we dont have to hear republicans cry for 4 more years. I just hope yall keep up the hate so you can lose the next election and turn to the whig party. By the way i get no gov assistance, i just finish my masters in economics and financing and me and my wife make about 150k a year between us. So there goes yall dumb freeby liberal rants i I always hear republicans throw around
Hate because I didn't vote for your lord and savior? Not my words but Jamie Fox's.
Obama is NOT a leader. Look around you...this country has never been as divided as it is today.
Our foreign policies are in shambles. Our most precious blood is STILL being spilled and MURDERED overseas.
The day after the election, the stock market fell over 300 points. Some faith, huh?
Let's review your post and its 'intellectual' attributes: Racist, trumpster, HATE (your ilks favorite).
Socrates said it best: When the debate is lost, then slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Charles Sosa, I believe your statistics are off somewhat. I would not consider this election a so called blow out. If you look at the voting most states were GOP when you exclude the inner cities where most of the don't halves which believe they should have because they are intitled to have by this administration.
Take the Olympics out of this equation and all you have is...
Dumb and Dumber.
try to run a country! we know you are trying! but telling lies and campaigning will not do it. quit acting like a blaming boy, become a president.
Yoh hate because you GOP members call a man who is ivy league educated dumb which non of your canidates are. If you look at polls, no minorities vote republican, and its not just cuz of Obama. To the rest of us yall look and talk racist crap all the time then say we are racist for pointing your racist comments. The stock market falling after the election is our presidents fault right? How many americans died in two pointless war during Bush terms? It was real close tho at 332-206 lol. The only thing that you repubs can say is that people who are dems feel they are intitled. Well i agree, we are intitled to a president we can trust, we are intitled to our social security which we paid for, we are intitled to make decisions in our lifes without repubs try ing to tell us its not gods will, we intitled to have unions that will fight for employees and make sure we are paid fairly. But You can say i'm intitled cuz i want all of that and i pray that you guys don't learn and use future elections so we can all get a nice laugh at your canidates like we did this year.