Here are Twitters Top 10 Political Moments of 2014
From inside jokes to political movements, it's been a busy year on Twitter. With 2014 drawing to a close, the popular micro-blogging service released its top 10 political moments early Wednesday to coincide with a broader look-back on the last 12 months. In February, Secretary of State John Kerry re-joined Twitter, a year after his confirmation to the role. , In June, the Central Intelligence Agency joined the service with a message that would be the most retweeted government/political tweet of the year, according to Twitter. , According to Twitter, the @FLOTUS tweet is her most RT'd tweet ever and generated 9 million impressions and 4 million embedded Tweet impressions. There were 4.5 million tweets with the hashtag in 2014. , Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby used Twitter for the first time ever to announce the beginning of military operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria. , According to Twitter, more than 4 million tweets mentioned the disease in 2014, and one spreading the facts about how the disease spreads was the most-RT'd tweet from the @WhiteHouse account, , For the second year in a row, former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer live-tweeted his experiences on the 13th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 this year, drawing thousands of retweets. , President Barack Obama's decision to wear a tan suit to a press conference discussing his strategy to combat ISIS becomes instant fodder for Twitter mockery. , The former Secretary of State responds to a late night hosts's Halloween costume. , Lawmakers' tweets marked the World Cup and other 2014 sporting events. , , , , Photos from space captivated social media this year, with NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman's inaugural vine from space being played more than 9 million times in 2014. , First Lady Michelle Obama's PSA for healthy eating scored more than 36 million loops.