The Year in Tweets

Thursday, 16 December 2010 | by Pat's Picks

You know the end is near when newspapers start compiling lists of the year’s best (blank). The Philadelphia Inquirer starts its recap of the year in Tweets with one of the first accounts of Haiti’s devastating earthquake. Messages from and about the year’s cultural juggernauts—the iPad; WikiLeaks; Snooki—follow.

Twitter compiled its own list of the year’s most re-tweeted messages.