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The most trending topics on Twitter in the year 2020 have been regarding coronavirus and BlackLivesMatter

08 Dec 2020

Black Lives Matter protest is seen.

Niloufar Saleem, Gulf Today

While the whole world crashed when the coronavirus spread like wildfire, everyone was talking about how to handle and what was the impact they experienced because of the same.

Social media was the most used portal these times and the hashtag #Covid19 trended almost the whole year on and is still trending .

Similarly the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter was used the most as people of colour were sidelined and were the ones that suffered the most amid such trying times.

A lady is seen tweeting on her phone.

In a summary of trends, Twitter said the hashtag #Covid19 and other variations were tweeted nearly 400 million times, while #StayHome was the third biggest hashtag of the year.

The number two hashtag of 2020 was #BlackLivesMatter, which spread worldwide after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis, according to Twitter.

The most retweeted message was the announcement of the death of Chadwick Boseman, star of the ground-breaking superhero movie "Black Panther," in August.

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Tweeted by the actor's family with his account, the message garnered 7.5 million likes -- the most all-time -- and 2.1 million retweets.