Twitter has released 2012′s data showing us the top trends, Golden Tweets and more that occurred this year. According to Twitter, “The 2012 Trends reveal what captured our attention, rather than what terms were consistently popular.” You can visit 2012.twitter.com to see a breakdown of 2012 which was a rather busy year for social media. Such events as the Presidential election, the 2012 Summer Olympics had a large impact on the trends and they both broke records of their own on Twitter.
Interesting data includes things such as the most retweeted comment and picture to the top conversations and topics of the year and the rising stars on the social media channel.
Browsing the trends you can find the top ten trends of various categories, for example the top trend in TV was Family Guy and the in Sports it was the NFL.