Garth Brooks, Brian O'Driscoll and Love/Hate caused the biggest spikes in traffic on Twitter in Ireland this year.
A gruesome episode of Love/Hate in October drew the most Irish tweets of 2014, followed by the All Ireland Football semi-final between Kerry and Mayo in August.
Ireland's defeat of France in Paris to win the Six Nations was another of the year's biggest Irish sporting events on the social network.
More than 200,000 tweets were sent celebrating the win throughout the day, while Brian O'Driscoll got 39,000 retweets when he said goodbye to Irish rugby.
Phew! Worked out ok! Thanks for all the messages of support. Unreal feeling. Not easy taking this off for last time pic.twitter.com/Sq89BdLOnw
— Brian O'Driscoll (@BrianODriscoll) March 15, 2014
The World Cup was the most tweeted-about event of the year - with 670 million posts worldwide, and a peak of 618,725 tweets sent per minute was recorded when Germany won the tournament.
You can read an overview of the year's most popular topics on the Twitter blog - from protests in Hong Kong to the Scottish Independence referendum.
Lewis Wiltshire from Twitter says the Oscars in February helped to kick off what they've labelled "the year of the selfie" - influenced by the Ellen DeGeneres selfie with Oscar nominees that was retweeted more than three million times:
If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014
