As several of the tens of thousands of competitors ran across the finish line at the Boston Marathon on April 15th, 2013, two bombs exploded. 264 innocent runners and supporters were injured and 3 were killed from the explosions. News sent shock waves around the world. As officials quickly responded and began a widely publicized

When disasters and tragedies plague the world, people are bound to discuss them. But this week’s international trends isn’t all doom and gloom. Some trends managed to sneak into our top 10 to help shed some light on an otherwise sad week. Let’s see what ended up on our charts. Public Enemy Manhunt On April

This week’s top international trends shed light on just how influential social media’s role is during elections, tragedies, controversies, disasters, world events and other big news. People flood social channels with messages of hope, inspiration and information. This week was a big week for global news and our top Twitter trends reflect that. Venezuelan Election

While international Twitter trends discussed world news, disasters and controversial events, this week’s U.S. trends mixed the hashtags up a bit. Boston’s unfortunate terrorist attacks took the top two Twitter spots (not surprisingly), but the rest of this week’s trends discussed big pop cultural news and exciting sporting events. #PrayForBoston Attracting over 500,000 spectators and

Twitterers were big sentimentalists this week. Most of this week’s international trends paid respects to the passing of several celebrities in popular culture and not-so-popular politicians. Likewise Venezuelan democracy is being tested this week – and trended across the globe. Without further adieu… Venezuela’s Democratic White Knight? Since the death of the widely popular and

This week’s American Twitter trends is like a mini-peephole into which the world can view American culture. From basketball’s finest championship games to discussing favorite television shows, box office movies and pop culture icons – this week’s Twitter trends could have trended any other week in the U.S. and no one would have been the