Twitter reveals Paris attacks were 2015's most talked about event

Twitter users across the world posted their tributes to the 130 massacre victims

Tribute: Paris St Germain's Zlatan Ibrahimovic wears the #JeSuisParis message

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7 December 2015

The Paris terror attacks were the most talked about event of the year so far on Twitter, the social network site has revealed.

The hashtags #JeSuisParis and #PrayForParis were used to show solidarity with the French capital in the wake of the major terror attack.

Twitter users across the world posted their tributes to the 130 massacre victims at the city's Stade de France, the Bataclan theatre, cafés and restaurants.

The trends were revealed as Twitter released its review of the year.

The Paris attacks hashtags were followed in the review by the Black Lives Matter movement, which began in the US and has become a social campaign discussing alleged police brutality against black citizens.

The hashtag or phrase was used more than nine million times in 2015.

Third on the list was #MarriageEquality to mark same-sex marriage being legalised nationally in the US and Ireland this year.

Campaign: gay marriage supporters in Dublin react to results on the referendum for same-sex marriage in May

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Other popular hashtags included #RefugeesWelcome to mark the debate around refugees fleeing war in the Middle East for Europe; #IStandWithAhmed in support of Texas schoolboy who was arrested when his home-made digital clock was mistaken for a bomb; and #TheDress, which divided the world over whether it was blue and black or white and gold.

Clock gaffe: Twitter users posted support for Texan schoolboy Ahmed Mohamed after he was wrongly accused of having a bomb

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Twitter's global users grew to 320 million this year, with around 15 million in the UK.

Lewis Wiltshire, Twitter's director of media partnerships, said: "2015 has been another phenomenal year on Twitter. Across the world people have come together to celebrate, support one another, to show solidarity and of course to laugh."

Additional reporting by the Press Association

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