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29 March 2024

Golden tweet of 2014 and #5toFollow list

From Ellen’s tweet to space travel and triumphant World Cup moments… it all happened on Twitter this year. (Pic: Twitter@TheEllenShow)

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People send more than 500 million tweets per day, according to Twitter blog.

Each one contributes something special to Twitter, but only one is recognised as the ‘Golden Tweet’, a.k.a. the most re-tweeted tweet of the year. This year, the honour goes to @TheEllenShow’s starry photo from the March Oscars telecast, reveals a report by Gabriel Stricker, Chief Communications Officer, Twitter.

To look back on the best global moments from the year, Twitter unveiled #YearOnTwitter on 2014.Twitter.com. From Ellen’s tweet to space travel and triumphant World Cup moments, if it happened in the world, it happened on Twitter. Here’s a look:

World Cup: The biggest sports story in 2014, especially on Twitter. Fans, players, teams and media sent over 672 million tweets during the month-long tournament. At its peak, there were 618,725 tweets sent per minute — the largest peak we measured this year — when Germany (@DFB_Team) took home the championship.

#BringBackOurGirls: In response to a mass kidnapping in Nigeria, millions of tweets were sent mentioning #BringBackOurGirls. This map visualises the hashtag’s global spread over a two-week period.

#IndyRef: Scottish citizens used Twitter to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ regarding a referendum on independence from the UK in the days leading up to the vote in September. This interactive map of geotagged ‘yes’ or ‘no’ tweets shows the global nature of the conversation, which spread well beyond Scotland. From the first debate through polling day, there were more than 3.75 million tweets about the referendum.

Hong Kong protests: When citizens of Hong Kong gathered to protest governmental electoral reforms, characterised by the hashtag #occupycentral, people over the world took to Twitter to add their thoughts. There were more than 2.3 million tweets about what became known as the #UmbrellaRevolution. Here are the most shared photos, and here’s how the event played out on Twitter.

#BlackLivesMatter: There were more than 18 million tweets about the #Ferguson protests in August, as charted in this visualisation. In the hours following the grand jury’s decision in November, there were 3.5 million tweets from across the US.

Also tied to a similar grand jury decision in New York, this map shows how powerfully the hashtags #ICantBreathe and #BlackLivesMatter shaped the conversation on Twitter.

2014.Twitter.com also showcases the year from the perspective of some of your favourite (and most prolific) Twitter users. The list of featured users is below. From the site, you can also explore their #5toFollow to see their own must-follows.


Lady Gaga
J.K. Rowling
Neymar Jr.
Robert Downey Jr.
Aaron Paul
Henry Winter
Gary Lineker
Glenda Kozlowksy
Eduardo Jorge
Tim Howard
Jared Leto
The Duke of York
Cheryl Fernandez-Versini
Claudia Leitte
Sachin Tendulkar
Amitabh Bachchan