Justin Bieber, discovered on YouTube in 2008, became the biggest teen star in the world in 2010. Beliebers organised on Twitter, where a Twitter engineer said Bieber accounted for a noticeable share of the site's traffic, and "Bieber" was among the year's fastest-rising searches. Hating him was an equally popular pastime.
- Type
- trend
- Origin
- YouTube, 2008; My World 2.0, March 2010
- Peak
- 2010
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Justin Bieber
Sixteen, discovered on YouTube, and the most-searched person of 2010
Justin Bieber released My World 2.0 in March 2010, became the youngest solo male act to top the Billboard 200 in 47 years, and had the most-viewed video on YouTube by July. He was Google's third...
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Justin Bieber: Baby (feat. Ludacris)
The most-viewed video on YouTube, and the most disliked
Released in February 2010, the video for Baby became the most-viewed video on YouTube in July 2010, overtaking Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, and eventually the most-disliked as well. Bieber, discovered on...
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Twitter
140 characters and the Fail Whale
Twitter turned four in 2010 and became the internet's newswire. Users sent about 50 million tweets a day in February and roughly 90 million a day by September, the Library of Congress agreed to...
