From the political to the mundane to the outright weird, Twitter can give you a sense of everything that went on in a through the ramblings of the world’s most followed.
Let a musician out of the recording studio and they just can’t get enough of constantly sharing their innermost thoughts to the world, even if it’s through the most basic of memes or the most self-indulgent of selfies.
On Twitter you can be anything you want to be. Comedian. Commentator. Critic. Life Coach. With an infinite audience, your wildest thoughts might be retweeted a quarter of a million times, like @kimkardashian, or a tragic 29 even for the greatest joke you’ve seen all year, @blaenavon. Mariah Carey kept the torch of divadom alive, Skrillex rode a horse, and Cher compared Trump to vomit. What a time to be alive.
In 2016, we learned there’s always someone having more fun than you:
Just rode a horse up a volcano pic.twitter.com/b2lyEpbSGU
— Skrillex (@Skrillex) March 4, 2016
the bathroom at jon and vinny's is the best club I've ever been to pic.twitter.com/EBKGwJ9aec
— lanzo (@babyhaim) November 7, 2016
Others were #relatable:
haven't got out of bed yet but i did sing pillow talk to my cat
— olly ✨ (@alexander_olly) March 25, 2016
Tfw you get to the gates of heaven and they ask u for ur Apple ID password which u forgot
— ????? ???????? (@oscar_scheller) December 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/DeclanMcKenna/status/807765386926112769
I don't have time to like things ironically.
— St. Vincent (@st_vincent) February 2, 2016
Jaden Smith wrote every status like a listicle title:
Don't Argue With Anybody About What Color The Sky Is.
— Jaden (@jaden) December 6, 2016
Political turmoil inspired a new generation of cultural commentators:
'Boris' keeps autocorrecting to 'virus'
— Jamie MacColl (@jamiemaccoll) June 30, 2016
TwitterThere were highbrow debates on the rise of populism:
TRUMP'S SO DISGUSTING,NO WORDS DESCRIBE HIM ‼️MAYBE VISUALS‼️
Hair In Soup,Gum Disease,kkk,
Maggots,SeaWorld,Pus,Fraking,Vomit,Child Hunger— Cher (@cher) April 12, 2016
this wave looks like Trump pic.twitter.com/cPgC3aiquI
— Ezra Koenig (@arzE) April 28, 2016
Yoko Ono congratulated the new presidential elect:
Dear Friends,
I would like to share this message with you as my response to @realDonaldTrump
love, yoko pic.twitter.com/s1BqfUgfLr— Yoko Ono (@yokoono) November 11, 2016
Kanye stood up to the critics:
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/699366026337775621?lang=en-gb
The selfie generation’s narcissism got out of hand:
So my daughter refuses to have this doll in her bedroom…Don't know why pic.twitter.com/jyTjpRXOFL
— Robbie Williams (@robbiewilliams) April 11, 2016
The 1976 made waves in the fashion world:
My side project is starting to do really well pic.twitter.com/j2QILpa0wM
— ?? (@Truman_Black) August 13, 2016
Stranger Things was everywhere:
when you realize you kinda look like the boy from stranger things pic.twitter.com/920Y74avB1
— BANKS (@hernameisBANKS) October 11, 2016
The Brits were riveting:
what's the wifi code? @brits
— RAT BOY (@RATBOY) February 24, 2016
There were sofa cynics:
great British bake off is rigged
— Ezra Koenig (@arzE) October 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/DeclanMcKenna/status/807712873606774784
Mariah Carey was #Blessed:
Friggin world traveler ??? pic.twitter.com/fnegxnNgSD
— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) July 11, 2016
We had identity crises:
Ross Geller or Drake? pic.twitter.com/pwTQklxUfj
— blaenavon (@Blaenavon) October 9, 2016
Or, not:
Man still don't care about all that.
— Big Smoke – (@Skepta) June 29, 2016
But at least we can look forward to 2017.
If you thought 2016 was bad – I'm releasing an album in 2017.
— James Blunt (@JamesBlunt) December 13, 2016
By Perdi Higgs and Ellen Peirson-Hagger