6 December 2011
Last updated at 07:06 ET
Tweeters showed interest in the Arab Spring
The top 10 most popular hashtags of 2011 have been revealed, illustrating how Twitter spans diverse topics from politics to celebrity gossip.
Hashtags are used to group together tweets relating to the same subject.
Top of the list was #egypt, followed by #tigerblood.
The first refers to the unrest in Egypt during the spring of 2011 while the second references a comment made by actor Charlie Sheen, following his sacking from a hit US comedy.
Sheen made the headlines in 2011 for a series of often rambling public rants which culminated with the comment to online celebrity gossip site RadarOnline: “My fangs are dripping tiger blood.”
At the same time, he joined Twitter and racked up one million followers in the first 24 hours, believed to be a record for the site.
He used the site to comment on the dispute between him and the Two And A Half Men show’s producers, at one point tweeting: “I’m
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