December 25, 2025: Top Searches of 2009 - The Year That Broke The Internet
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December 25, 2025: Top Searches of 2009 - The Year That Broke The Internet
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Welcome to Trends Daily—Christmas Day 2025, the legendary 25/25/25 date. Team is on holiday, prescheduled episode. Back live Monday, December 29th. TOP SEARCHES OF 2009: Global #1: Michael Jackson—King of Pop died June 25th, internet literally collapsed. Google thought cyberattack. 4 million searches per minute. CNN, AOL, Twitter, Wikipedia all crashed. Memorial: 2.5 billion viewers. US #1: Twitter—exploded from 6M to 75M users. Real-time news born. Real-time arguments too. Top Rising: Facebook (killed MySpace, your aunt joined), Swine Flu H1N1 (no idea what was coming 11 years later), Lady Gaga (Poker Face, meat dress era incoming), Twilight New Moon (Team Edward vs Jacob discourse unhinged). Top News: Obama Inauguration (hope trending), Susan Boyle (algorithm learning we love underdogs), Jon and Kate divorce (America hooked on other people's problems). Celebrity Deaths: Farrah Fawcett, Patrick Swayze, Billy Mays—Grim Reaper had a schedule. The Pattern: Birth of real-time internet culture. MJ's death = first "where were you?" moment of social media era. The chaotic, emotional, always-on internet started here. Created by Adam J Carswell. Connect on LinkedIn.