{"id":2797,"date":"2014-12-23T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2014-12-26T08:20:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T08:20:28","slug":"2797","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/2014\/12\/2797\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Most Popular Topics: 2014 Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Facebook is the most popular social network in Australia and the entire world, it look to them this time of year to highlight what the most popular and most shared topics were. Here is a look at Facebook\u2019s 2014 year in review.<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s Year in Review Video<\/strong><\/p>\n

Check out a great video<\/a> that captures the entire year in less than 2 minutes. It shows glimpses of all the popular topics you have likely shared yourself on your own Facebook profile including the World Cup, the Olympics, passing of starts that made us sad and singing \u2018Happy\u2019 and \u2018Let it Go\u2019 to make us feel better. Raising money for ALS went viral and we all admired the doctors fighting to cure Ebola. An overwhelming theme is the one world aspect with world leaders fighting injustice and pleading for peace.<\/p>\n

Top Trending Topics for Australia in 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Robin Williams<\/li>\n
  2. Tony Abbot<\/li>\n
  3. Malaysia Airlines<\/li>\n
  4. Ice Bucket Challenge<\/li>\n
  5. Game of Thrones<\/li>\n
  6. Ebola Virus Outbreak<\/li>\n
  7. Conflict in Gaza<\/li>\n
  8. South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/li>\n
  9. World Cup<\/li>\n
  10. Melbourne Cup<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Australia\u2019s trends are very similar to the global trending topics on Facebook which were:<\/p>\n

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    1. World Cup,<\/li>\n
    2. Ebola virus outbreak,<\/li>\n
    3. elections in Brazil,<\/li>\n
    4. Robin Williams,<\/li>\n
    5. Ice Bucket Challenge,<\/li>\n
    6. conflict in Gaza,<\/li>\n
    7. Malaysia Airlines,<\/li>\n
    8. Super Bowl,<\/li>\n
    9. Michael Brown\/Ferguson, and<\/li>\n
    10. Sochi Winter Olympics.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       <\/p>\n

      Six out of the ten global top 10 topics were also in Australia\u2019s top 10 Facebook topic trends.<\/p>\n

       <\/p>\n

       <\/p>\n

      Facebook\u2019s Top Trending Places in Australia for 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

      This is the list of the most checked into places in Australia registered by Facebook in 2014.<\/p>\n

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      1. Darling Harbour, Sydney<\/li>\n
      2. Sydney Opera House<\/li>\n
      3. Melbourne Cricket Ground<\/li>\n
      4. Sydney Harbour<\/li>\n
      5. Taronga Zoo<\/li>\n
      6. Warner Bros. Movie World<\/li>\n
      7. Sea World \u2013 Gold Coast, Australia<\/li>\n
      8. South Bank, Brisbane<\/li>\n
      9. Dreamworld Australia<\/li>\n
      10. Surfers Paradise<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

         <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Since Facebook is the most popular social network in Australia and the entire world, it look to them this time of year to highlight what the most popular and most shared topics were. Here is a look at Facebook\u2019s 2014 year in review. Facebook\u2019s Year in Review Video Check out a great video that captures the entire year in less than 2 minutes. It shows glimpses of all the popular topics you have likely shared yourself on your own Facebook profile including the World Cup, the Olympics, passing of starts that made us sad and singing \u2018Happy\u2019 and \u2018Let it Go\u2019 to make us feel better. Raising money for ALS went viral and we all admired the doctors fighting to cure Ebola. An overwhelming theme …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[930,912],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","tag-social-media","tag-trending"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}