"Were events of all kinds: political, tragic, family, social and sports took a special dimension in the social network. featuring celebrities or completely unknown users, shocked the world."
The micro blogging network presented the special The Year 2011 in short, which collects the most important events and the best stories that went through Twitter.
It also reflects the most prominent figures that joined with their tweets, like Charlie Sheen, Nelson Mandela and Roberto Gomez Bolaños. And issues with further comment in the areas of music, acting or sports.
Here are 10 of the stories that marked the year:
1. @ Ghonim: Wael Ghonim is an activist tweeters and Google executive who went on to fame for opposing the government of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. For his tweets, which called for the protest, was arrested and blindfolded for 12 days. Mubarak was overthrown on February 11, after three decades in power.
2. @ ReallyVirtual: I could not sleep because of the constant sound of a helicopter near his home. The man, who lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan, stood up, tweeted his anger and went to see what happened. It was the computer programmer Shohaib Athar, who witnessed the American attack that killed Osama Bin Laden.
3. @ KDTrey5: U.S. basketball star Kevin Durant, posted while it lasted the lockout in the NBA, because of difficult negotiations between players and entrepreneurs. Soon, a college student invited him to a football game. Result: Durant attended and enrolled with four touchdowns .
4. @ Putodanny: A homeless man named Daniel Morales received a smartphone with Twitter at the hands of an NGO. At the time sent a message and a photo asking information on the whereabouts of her daughter Sara, who was not 11 years. Some tweeters told this to the girl, who after a few days he met his father, also present, their two children, and the grandchildren of Daniel Morales.
5. @ Conaxsilver: was one of the most active tweeters after the earthquake and tsunami occurred on March 11 in Japan, but in fact the whole world in solidarity with the tragedy through the network. Tweets, retweets, articles, campaigns and other streamlined aid initiatives.
6. @ Stefmara: Stefanie Gordon was on a plane to Palm Beach, Florida, when he managed to see through his window the arrival of space shuttle Endeavour. After sending the images to Twitter, they came to the media.
7. @ EinAugenschmaus: Using his ability to read lips, Julia Probst, a German soccer fan suffering from deafness, began to tell the players what they were talking out of what you hear on television. It managed to introduce the issue of disability in the network of microblogging.
8. @ Sophontrack: Young British Dan Thompson, Sophie Collard and Sam Duckworth came together to make a call to clean up the neighborhoods of London, after the demonstrations earlier this year in London. The initiative promoted through the tag @ riotscleanup had lots of volunteers.
9. @ Bozucuk: The presenter of Turkish TV news, Okan Bayulgen, used Twitter after the earthquake that struck the country in October this year. In their messages, Bayulgen reported on the status of citizens trapped in the rubble. So that helped save two people who were trapped.
10. @ Petershankman: Attempting to play a joke before boarding a plane, Peter Shankman sent a tweet to Morton, his favorite food restaurant. In the message, pointed out that Shankman land barely eats a steak with shrimp in that restaurant. Well, apparently the food chain took it quite seriously, because no sooner passed the customs; Shankman was received by an employee of Morton, with the food requested.
