The People's Republic of Twitterstan had quite a year indeed, what with record-breaking tweet surges, a growing active userbase and some serious celebrity brouhaha.

But despite those peaks and valleys, the things people talk about on Twitter over the long haul remain fairly consistent (read: Justin Bieber). As we have seen in our previous coverage of top Twitter trends, celebrities, sports and holidays almost always take the cake.

Our friends at What the Trend (now a HootSuite company) analyzed over 207,518 hashtags to identify the top trending topics of 2011. Along with the big list comes a handful of more focused categories including movies, TV shows and news events. They've whipped up the handy infographic below for your year-end reflection on the vox populi.





