2016 according to Twitter *1

History will remember — or choose to forget — a lot about 2016, and much of that will live forever archived on Twitter. 

The top trends of the year ranged from the Olympics to Game of Thrones, covering everything in between from the Brexit to #BlackLivesMatter. Celebrities, movies, GIFs and challenges paint a picture of the 2016 in danger of drowning but looking firmly in the other direction.

Here are Twitter's top 10 World trending topics in 2016:

1.     #Rio2016

2.     #Election2016

3.    #PokemonGo

4.    #Euro2016

5.     #Oscars

6.    #Brexit

7.     #Blacklivesmatter

8.     #Trump

9.    #RIP

10.  #GameofThrones

The top global retweets came from YouTuber Rubiu5's giveaway, a cheeky Harry Styles, and from Hillary Clinton after her election concession speech.