Year in Review: Top 10 Twitter moments of 2015

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Below are Twitter’s top 10 social media moments for 2015.

Employees chose the “biggest Twitter moments,” based on “the level of influence they had on Twitter.”

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“Level of influence” refers to “volume of conversation, global resonance, and impact,” according to Twitter.

The top selections are hardly surprising, but you might not guessed all 10 hashtags.

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