Year in Review 2011: Top Hashtags and Topics

Hot Hashtags and Internet Excitement: From the Arab Spring to the Royal Wedding, Twitter and Facebook were key sources of information for hundreds of millions users around the world in 2011. Twitter users are sending more than 200 million tweets per day and Facebook now has more than 800 million active users. Click through to see what all those users were talking about.
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Year in Review 2011: Top Hashtags and Topics

From Steve Jobs to the earthquake in Japan: What the world talked about on Twitter and Facebook this year.

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