Connect to share and comment
GlobalPost Blogs » The Casbah

A reported blog about all things Middle East and North Africa.

Jon JensenDecember 6, 2011 14:24

#Egypt: the top hashtag on Twitter in 2011

#Jan25, the hashtag used by Egyptian revolutionaries earlier this year, also made the Twitter 'hot topics' list
Egypt twitter top hashtag 12 06 11Enlarge
A shop in Tahrir Square is spray painted with the word Twitter after the government shut off internet access on February 4, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Twitter said in December that '#Egypt' was the top hashtag used around the world in 2011. (Peter Macdiarmid/AFP/Getty Images)
What do you think?

#Egypt was the most popular hashtag on Twitter in 2011, according to a new list published by the San Francisco-based social media company.

Thousands of young Egyptians took to the Twittersphere to post information about anti-government protests in the weeks leading up to February 11, when former president Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power.

Also on the Twitter list was #Jan25 - the date used in Egypt to refer to start of the country’s January uprising.

More from GlobalPost: Behind Egypt's revolution: youth and the internet

Here is the complete list of hot topics and hashtags from 2011:

  1. #egypt
  2. #tigerblood
  3. #threewordstoliveby
  4. #idontunderstandwhy
  5. #japan
  6. #improudtosay
  7. #superbowl
  8. #jan25 

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-casbah/egypt-the-top-hashtag-twitter-2011

.

Featured Slideshow

EU Basil Art Show