Twitter rated Top Word of 2009

The year has not yet ended but Microsoft says "Twitter" was among the top searches of 2009 on its new search engine Bing and a company that monitors language has crowned it the top word of the year.

"Michael Jackson", "Twitter" and "Swine Flu" were the top three search topics of the year on Bing.

Others making the list of top 10 searches were "Stock Market", "Farrah Fawcett", the actress who died in June, "Patrick Swayze", the actor who died in September, and "Jaycee Dugard", the California girl kidnapped at the age of 11 who turned up alive 18 years later.

Global Language Monitor (GLM), a company that analyses and tracks language trends, said that Twitter was the "Top Word of 2009".

In a year dominated by world-shaking political events, a pandemic, the after-effects of a financial tsunami and the death of a revered pop icon, the word Twitter stands above all the other words.

Other top words on the GLM list included "Obama", "Stimulus", "Vampire" and "Deficit".

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