Top ten viral news of the year

Twitter users were quite baffled by US President’s faux pas tweet: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe” Soon the internet was burning and the users were in a mad rush to define the word ‘covfefe’ in their own way. Trump finally deleted the tweet a few hours after it raked a storm on the internet, and further tweeted in a self-detesting manner, “Who can figure out the true meaning of ‘covfefe’ ??? Enjoy!”

Sarahah, which translates to ‘honesty’, is an app that was created by Saudi Arabian Zain al- Abidin Tawfiq to allow employees to post feedback to their bosses has now become a platform for seeking peer validation and cyberbullying. The app has attracted around 300 million users around the world that lets you receive anonymous comments from friends and strangers.

Dhinchak Pooja, India's latest cringe-pop sensation created furore this year by her songs that went viral on social media. Her song Selfie Maine Leli Aaj was viewed about 18 million times making her a sensation in no time.

During August’s solar eclipse, @NASAMoon blocked @NASASun, both being official Twitter pages of NASA. The tweet was extremely popular and was accompanied by a screenshot of the same. Image via Twitter/@NASAMoon

“Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations & outright lies being broadcast by an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalist,” tweeted Shashi Tharoor on May 8 as a response to claims on the mysterious death of Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar. The tweet soon became prey to jokes on social media. The word ‘farrago’ became a trending search on Google with a rise from 0 to 100 on the same day itself. Image via Twitter/@ShashiTharoor

#BoycottSnapchat, as social media trend was used by Indians after Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel said he doesn’t want to expand in “poor countries like India and Spain” because it is only for rich people. India being one of the top countries to download apps, users came heavily on the statement and started uninstalling the app and further rated it to one star on Google play store.

In April 2017, Carter Wilkerson from Nevada tweeted, “How many retweets for a year of free chicken nuggets?” Carter had asked Wendy’s. Little did he know that the response would reach a milestone as #NuggsForCarter had 18 million retweets- most retweets in history after Ellen Degeneres‘s Oscar selfie that had 3.4 million retweets. Image via Twitter/@carterjwm

In August this year, ex-US President Barak Obama tweeted quoting Nelson Mandela, “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion…” This tweet was retweeted 1.7 million times, showing no dip in the popularity of Obama even after he demit office earlier in the year. Image via Twitter/@BarackObama

A BBC interview with Professor Robert E. Kelly became one of the most popular things on the internet on March 10 after he was interrupted by his children when he was going live on air. The clip went viral and around 30 million people watched it on Facebook alone and 40 million people viewed it on Youtube. The interview was on the impeachment of South Korea’s then-President Park Guen-Hye. He is an expert on South Korea. Image via Youtube