2011 in Review: Best Tweet
- First Posted: Dec 28 2011 01:48 AM
- Updated: 1 day ago
Celebrating the best in 140 characters or less.
During the MTV Video Music Awards, Twitter users were sending more than 8,000 tweets a second – a new record. Granted, few of those (and probably next to none of them) were all that interesting. 2011 has gone to show that the more people that are on Twitter, the more entertaining and occasionally insightful this social medium can be. What was your favourite tweet of the year?
(Vote below!)
1) NDP MP Pat Martin unleashing a tirade against the Tories:
This is a fucking disgrace...closure again. And on the Budget! There's not a democracy in the world that would tolerate this jackboot shit
— Pat Martin MP (@PatMartinMP) November 16, 2011
2) Sohaib Athar unknowingly live-tweeting the raid on Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound:
Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).
— Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual) May 1, 2011
3) Red Cross employee tweeting about drinking beer and "getting slizzerd" (tweet taken down).
4) Charlie Sheen winning at Twitter:
Winning..!Choose your Vice...#winning#chooseyourvice http://twitpic.com/455ly9
— Charlie Sheen (@charliesheen) March 1, 2011
5) Stefanie Gordon's photo of a space shuttle through her airplane window:
Three things about my flight: I can lay down across 3 seats just fine, it was freezing & I got to see this.http://twitpic.com/4yg4ur
— Stefanie Gordon (@Stefmara) May 16, 2011
6) Google exec Wael Ghonim heralding the end of Hosni Mubarak's reign in Egypt:
Welcome back Egypt #Jan25
— Wael Ghonim (@Ghonim) February 11, 2011
7) Shaquille O'Neal announcing his retirement from basketball:
im retiring Video: http://bit.ly/kvLtE3 #ShaqRetires
— SHAQ (@SHAQ) June 1, 2011
More from The Mark’s '2011 in Review' series:
1. Best Films
2. Best Books
3. Best in Science and Technology
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