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Bieber Fever and the Beliebers

The first pop star made by YouTube and Twitter

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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.

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Type
trend
Origin
YouTube, 2008; My World 2.0, March 2010
Peak
2010

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