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Twitter’s top 10 most talked about people of 2013 - and Miley's nowhere in sight

 

Jenn Selby
Thursday 12 December 2013 12:42 GMT
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Want to know who the most talked about people in the UK were on Twitter this year?

We’ll give you a hint: Miley Cyrus, Beyoncé, Barack Obama and Kim Kardashian DO NOT appear in this list.

The social media platform released their annual review of activity. Yes, the top five most retweeted messages of 2013 came from a certain boyband. But the individual members trailed behind sportsmen, literary heroes and leaders.

To find out who made Twitter’s official Top 10 most talked about people, click on ‘view gallery’ above.

But a word of warning: you might not like who is in at number one.

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