The Top 10 Twitter Sports Trends In The UK In 2012

Donny Mahoney
By Donny Mahoney
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Twitter has unveiled its pretty slick 2012-in-review microsite, which provides an opportunity to look back on the mad year that was via the lens of 140 characters. Among their breakdown of the biggest trends of the year is an interesting snapshot of the Top 10 sport-related trends for the UK market (there are no Irish stats sadly). You'll see it below.

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The split in Olympics hashtags - #london2012 or #olympics - clearly split the vote on what was by far the biggest sporting event of the year. But what a finish by Liverpool edging out United. It's not quite second in the league, but it's something. I assume 'Being Liverpool' played some part in this. This also sums up our suspicion that Liverpool supporters are the most vocal in the social media sphere.

Also what the hell are Leeds doing there?

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