It’s official: Twitter is top word of 2009
by Steven E.F. Brown
San Francisco Business Times
Twitter squeezed out Obama, H1N1 and stimulus to be crowned “Top Word of 2009” by the Global Language Monitor.
The Austin, Texas-based GLM, which tracks language trends around the world, declared Twitter the No. 1 word on Sunday. “King of Pop” was named the top phrase of the year.
Rounding out the top 10 on the GLM’s list were vampire, 2.0, deficit, hadron, healthcare and transparency.
Obama scored again in the list of top phrases with the No. 2 “Obama-mania.” Other top phrases were “climate change,” “swine flu,” “too large to fail” and “cloud computing.”
GLM also listed top names for the year, with Barack Obama in the top spot, followed by Michael Jackson and then by “Mobama,” a nickname for First Lady Michelle Obama.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was No. 6 on the list of top names, edging out Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai.
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Best I can do with Twitter is wonder what the heck is all the hype about. I had a friend ask me to sign up but I haven't returned - not sure if it could become an addiction or a pain in the butt (I am thinking the later)
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