Twitter named most popular word of the year
Twitter has been voted the most popular word of the year by the The Global Language Monitor, with the micro-blogging site knocking ‘Obama’ off of the top spot. The top 15 words which have been released paint a pretty good picture of how 2009 shaped the world. There’s financial words which are darn right depressing – like ’stimulus’ (number 4), ‘deficit’ (number 7) and ‘foreclosure’ (number 14) – and words that are part of the zeitgeist, including ‘vampire’ (number 5), ‘hadron’ (number 
and, unfortunately, ‘unemployed’ (number 13). Standing above all As well as words, phrases have also been counted up and number one on this list, unsurprisingly, is ‘King of Pop’
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