Obama and 'chicken-nugget guy' rule Twitter: Top trends of 2017

"HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS." With 3.6mn retweets, Carter Wilkerson led the 2017 list: he was trying to win free chicken nuggets for a year from Wendy's.

"broken. i am so so sorry." Ariana Grande responded after the Manchester attack.

"Sleep tight little one." Footballer Jermain Defoe paid tributes to his six-year-old "best friend" Bradley Lowery, who died of cancer.

In the US, Obama had three of the top 10 retweets, including his last tweets as president and his response to the Charlottesville violence: "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion."

Apart from these, LeBron James calling Trump "bum" and Linkin Park's tribute to former lead singer Chester Bennington touched millions.

Trump, the president who has frequently used Twitter to launch personal attacks, didn't make it to 2017's most retweeted. However, he was the most tweeted-about elected world leader.

PBS' live broadcast of Trump's inauguration was the most-viewed live stream.

Trump's Twitter account is so popular that when an employee removed it for 11 minutes, it made international headlines. The guy responsible recently came forward.

In India, Narendra Modi, Amitabh Bachchan and SRK topped the most-followed list. Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Aamir Khan, Deepika Padukone, Sachin Tendulkar, Hrithik Roshan and VIrat Kohli followed.

Among the top trending hashtags in the country were #baahubali2 and #BB11 (in entertainment), #gst and #mannkibaat (in news and politics) and #indvspak, #IPL and #wwc17 (in sports).