According to Global Language Monitor, Twitter was the hottest word 2009. An automatic analysis program was used to find out the most popular English word on the Internet. The same method was used to find the most popular name, Barack Obama, and that “The King of Pop” (Michael Jacksson’s nickname) is the phrase that best characterizes 2009.
According to the Swedish magazine, Språk, Google’s top list over the users’ search words is another good method to find “the word of the year”, then the list looks like this:
1. Michael Jacksson
2. Facebook
3. Tuenti (a Spanish speaking network site)
4. Twitter
In Sweden, the most popular search word is Facebook and Spotify is the search word that increases the fastest in popularity.
A bit of pop, social media sites and the US president… 2009 in a nutshell.
/ylva.
