Twitter announces most retweeted winners for 2012

Rating: USA dominates but UK and Japan get mentions

When we spotted that Twitter had released the Golden Tweets for 2012 we were first intrigued, then disillusioned. The Golden Tweets are based on the number of times that an original tweet gets retweeted. What the results showed is that by far users in the USA dominate Twitter usage. However, Japan and good old Blighty (GB) get honourable mentions. The numbers are also intriguing. The Top Tweet garnered some 810,000 retweets. Yet those at the bottom scored only some 67,000 retweets and some 5,000 favourites. With a little bit of tweaking, therefore, mobile marketers could easily get themselves up the rankings in the Twittersphere.

OK, we’re a bit biased here because it was Team GB – which consisted of the UK’s Olympics 2012 team, which scored those 67,000 retweets.

The message is somewhat obvious: – “29 gold, 17 silver, 19 bronze – We finished 3rd in medal table after most successful Olympics for 104 years”.

OK. Who won? Well, it was US President Barack Obama with the simplest of tweets: – “Four more years”.

It looks like being succinct on Twitter pays off. The Tweet also gathered some 300,000 plus favourites.

In second place was a rock star with a sad message. “RIP Avalanna. ilove you”.

The tweet was sent out by hearthrob Justin Bieber after his six year old fan, Avalanna Routh, succumbed to cancer.

Well, you have to be a rock star to get global fame, but how do you become Big In Japan? Answer: You have to be an anime star.

Um, yes, anime’s equivalent in the West would be a cartoon character so how do you become famous if your face is never seen? Answer: You’re a voice actor.

Prominent Japanese male voice actor, Kouichi Yamadera, announced in a Tweet that he had registered for marriage with actress Rie Tanaka.

This became the most retweeted message from Japan in 2012. he even beat Team GB with 68,000 retweets and some 6,000 favourites.

If you want to see the full details go here.

GoMobile News wonders how we could discover which SMS (text) message was forwarded in the UK. We suspect it was some kind of Jimmy Saville joke involving Xmas.