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A BIT OF “horseplay” in the Dáil, an irascible TV presenter, tragic deaths and memories of primary school: these are among the main obsessions of the Irish Twitter community in 2013.
The topics which got Irish users going on the social media platform this year range from sporting events to politics to TV and nostalgia for Irish slang.
Big note of context here: Twitter Ireland say that they have ranked the following top tens to reflect what trended most often, rather than the volume of tweets about a particular topic. So you might say these are the things that we most consistently got worked up about.
(Although it’s surprising that the #GIBO (Great Irish Bake Off) got into the TV top ten, and #lovehate didn’t, right?)
Irish news
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Irish people
TV
Image: Great Irish Bake Off/TV3
Sports
Sportspeople
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Twitter conversation starters
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International news
People (including, but not only, Irish)
On a global level, the interest in celebrities’ Twitter accounts continued.
The most popular message on Twitter as a whole this year came from Glee star Lea Michele following the death of her co-star and boyfriend Cory Monteith:
Next came the official announcement of the death of Fast and the Furious actor Paul Walker in a car crash:
The next three most popular tweets came from One Direction band members. Tops was Mullingar’s Niall Horan, of course.
His bandmate Zayn Malik snaffled the next two – here and here.
The whole of Twitter’s report from 2013 just now went live on 2013.twitter.com.
Updated 09.29: Twitter updated ‘Irish people’ list to remove Joe Hart, and include Joe Brolly.
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