Justin Bieber Owns Center Stage, Followed by Soccer/Football and Lady Gaga as Top Twitter Trends for 2011 from http://blog.hootsuite.com/top-twitter-trends-2011/ What the Trend – a HootSuite Media company – analyzed 207,518 Twitter trends which surfaced in 2011 to determine the top trending topics of 2011. To capture the conversation, localized trend information was compiled every 5 minutes from Twitter and the What the Trend community added context with user-contributed definitions. Reviewing the resulting list gives a unique view of social media’s impact on all aspects of culture.