The Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, U.S. presidential election, as well as Pokemon Go by Niantic were the most talked about global events of passing year.

The most popular trends in 2016 in the category of "News and events" were Victory Day, elections, news from Syria, Brexit, as well as congratulations for women on March 8.

The major persons of the year in the Russian Twitter were Vladimir Putin, actor Alan Rickman and Donald Trump.

Also, in the list of the global trends of 2016 apart from Pokemon Go, Olympic games and U.S. presidential elections there are the Oscar Award ceremony, UEFA EURO 2016, a referendum on the withdrawal of Britain from the EU and some other incidents.

In the top-5 of the most popular events in the Russian Twitter in 2016 (here, such indicator as the number of tweets per minute was taken into account) there are news about Ukraine's victory at Eurovision-2016, Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar, end of the poll in the first in Russia Twitter Stars contest, Vasili Berezutski's goal to the gate of England's team, as well as Antonio Edera's goal to the gate of French team.

Notably, the third most popular tweet in the world in 2016 was the announcment of Hillary Clinton about her failure in the presidential race. The second place was occupied by the tweet of one of the One Direction musicians, the first place was taken by the tweet of Spanish gamer El Rubius.