There is about 3 weeks before we leave 2020 behind. When we look back, we see that 2020 is an extraordinary year for the whole world with fire, terrorist attacks, earthquakes and the ongoing corona virus epidemic. Twitter & Statistics 2020 report on Turkey, which has become a platform where people look first after the events on Twitter, the most spoken name in Turkey in 2020, announced tweets and hashtags. While this year the forefront of epidemics and earthquakes, as well as Korean pop BTS from around the world also took part in the very top of Earthly spoken in Turkey.
Fahrettin Koca, Donald Trump, BTS and more Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, similar to other platforms, became the most talked about name on Twitter. Minister Koca, who we have seen on the screens frequently since the day of the Corona virus epidemic, became the person with the highest number of followers with more than 4 million new followers. The public spot posted by the Minister of Health on March 16 and starring Taner Ölmez was the most retweeted tweet. With his statements about the opening and closing of schools, Ziya Selçuk and Donald Trump were among the most talked about names due to the US elections. There was also a surprising improvement in Turkey's agenda. South Korean pop music group BTS became one of the popular topics in our country in 2020. Earthquake disaster and Survivor 2020
We suffered casualties in 2020 due to earthquakes that deeply injured us, especially in Elazig and Izmir. According to AFAD data, a total of 117 people died and 1,034 people were injured in the Izmir earthquake, 1 of which was as a result of drowning.
In the Elazig earthquake that occurred on January 24, 2020, 41 people died and more than 1600 were injured. While # survivor2020 ranks first in the most used hashtag list, earthquakes are in the second. Also, the hashtag #evdekal was used very often due to the epidemic. Haluk Levent was one of the names that set the agenda of Twitter this year, as it did last year. Haluk Levent, who carried out important aid and solidarity activities with the AHBAP community, became one of the names with more than 1 million followers on Twitter this year.
Fatih Terim's most talked football teams and according to the latest data year to year in Turkey, Twitter's most talked football team was Besiktas. Beşiktaş is followed by Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe in the ranking. While most spoken foreign team Barcelona in Turkey and in the world was the most talked-team Brazilian giants Flamengo team. Beşiktaş JK (@Besiktas) was the account with the most interaction. Over 10 million tweets were posted about Beşiktaş. Last year's Super League champion Medipol Başakşehir became the 4th club with the most tweets. Fenerbahçe, on the other hand, became the club that gained the most followers in 2020 with 867 thousand new followers. In most talked basketball team in Turkey NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers, while the Renault Formula 1 team was also most chat about the race team in motor sports. Fatih Terim's Tweets taken on January 24, was ranked 7th among the most retweeted tweet was in 2020 in Turkey. Fatih Terim was one of the names caught in coronavirus. While many sports people were struggling with this disease in 2020, tweets about both positive tests and recovery were on the agenda. One of them was Fatih Terim's tweet. On the other hand hashtags in Turkey in the past year, while about most sports, the hashtag was observed to take place at the top of the sport on this year.