Twitter’s biggest global trends of 2016 have revealed social media’s obsession with the Olympics, politics and Pokemon Go.
While #Rio2016 was the biggest of the year, the US election, Oscars, Brexit and Donald Trump also featured in the top 10 as politics dominated many conversations.
These are the top topics people tweeted about over the year…
1. Rio2016
2. Election2016
3. PokemonGo
4. Euro2016
5. Oscars
6. Brexit
7. BlackLivesMatter
8. Trump
9. RIP
10. GameofThrones
1. Brexit
2. Trump
3. Election2016
4. Turkey
5. iVoted
6. PanamaPapers
7. JuniorDoctors
8. Budget2016
9. Labour
10. Chilcot
1. CBB
2. GBBO
3. LoveIsland
4. XFactor
5. Eurovision
6. GameofThrones
7. BBCQT
8. SSNHQ
9. PMQs
10. BRITs2016
1. Harry Styles (29.5m)
2. Adele (27.5m)
3. Louis Tomlinson (23.5m)
4. Liam Payne (23.5m)
5. Emma Watson (23.4m)
6. Zayn Malik (20.4m)
7. Ed Sheeran (16.6m)
8. Wayne Rooney (14.1m)
9. Simon Cowell (12.7m)
10. Stephen Fry (12.3m)