Rather than starting my own list, I thought I’d share a few of the lists I’ve seen relating to ‘Best of 2009′.

Facebook

Ten most popular Facebook games of 2009

Top Facebook status trends of 2009

Twitter

Top Twitter trends of 2009

Best celebrity Twitter stories of 2009

Social Media & Tech

Most social brand’s of 2009

Gizmodo’s best iPhone apps of 2009

Most watched and searched on YouTube in 2009

Australia’s most popular Google searches of 2009

Top 10 Digg stories of 2009

The best social media campaigns of 2009

Best social media blog posts of 2009

Best internet memes of 2009

Best blogs of 2009

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Here’s a quick insight into the popularity of some of the best known social networks and social media platforms.

The below shows the Google search volumes of Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, YouTube & Flickr in Australia for 2009.

Facebook clearly dominates the search queries and has grown steadily in popularity throughout the year. YouTube is a distant second with less than half the volume of searches, which have remained fairly steady throughout the year. It’s interesting to see that as Facebook has grown in popularity, MySpace has decreased in popularity. MySpace garners only about one in four as many queries as Facebook. Twitter and Flickr seem to get a fairly negligible portion of the search volume.

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