Everyone's heard about the bird!
Yes, I know we’ve moved on — 2009 is so seven days ago. But I think it’s worth acknowledging, even at this late hour, that Parade and USA Weekend (those thin magazines in your Sunday paper) each rated Twitter among its relatively short top-topics-in-2009 lists.
- Parade: Unforgettable Stories of 2009
- USA Weekend: Best News of 2009
Not that either of these publications might be considered the foremost authority on social media, technology or world news, but in a way, that’s what’s so cool about this achievement for Twitter. Individually and together their circulations are enormous, and they certainly have an editorial knack for developing stories with mass appeal. Collectively, other topics the pubs chose for their year-in-review aticles included Barack Obama’s election as the first African-American President, Pilot Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger’s heroic landing of an airliner on New York’s Hudson River and the H1N1 influenza pandemic. That Twitter was included with such historic, emotional subject matter is pretty amazing.
Indeed, the rise of Twitter has been a fascinating movement to watch unfold. Given the company’s tremendous growth in 2009, isn’t it “twitillating” to consider what the company has up its sleeve heading into a new decade? If you’re still not tweeting, what are you waiting for? Go to http://twitter.com and join or create discussions.
Note: Props to Smash Magazine for offering the feathered graphic.
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