Goth clowns, Ted Lasso, and Cold War: Twitter's trending topics from 2022 reveal pop culture fads alongside global political unrest

Dec 26 2022 by Business Insider

 

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Software engineer Brian Feldman created an archive of topics that trended on Twitter this year. The project revealed themes of global political unrest alongside memes and pop culture trends. Descriptions of trends showed developers "wrestling" with curating an automated world, he said. 

When writer and software engineer Brian Feldman created an archive of topics that trended on...

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