# How The Green Living Guy Ruled Twitter in 2010, Who to Follow in 2011

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2011/01/how-the-green-living-guy-ruled-twitter-in-2010-who-to-follow-in-2011/
- Published: 2011-01-24T18:03:16-05:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

Source: Earth911

The No. 1 trending topic on Twitter in 2010 wasn’t Team Coco, FIFA World Cup or 
even Justin Bieber. According to Twitter’s analysis, “Gulf Oil Spill” was the most
popular trend of this year’s 25 billion tweets, pushing environmental topics mainstream
and chipping away from the former “nonprofit-worker-turned-hippie-activist” stereotype.

The Oil Spill is a microcosm of where [social media](https://greenlivingguy.com/green-living-consulting-services/consulting-social-media/)
is helping to enable a real green media space whereby people can express their views
as well as provide pertinent information of what’s going on the world,” says Seth
Leitman, author of Green Living Guy and editor of the McGraw-Hill TAB Green Guru
Guides.

While the Oil Spill tragedy garnered a high volume of hard news coverage, it also
helped make “green” a lifestyle.

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