Twitter reveals the top Aussie entertainers and musicians of 2018

Twitter Australia has four million accounts, according to the 2018 Sensis Social Media Report.

In Australia, 1 in 3 users tweet daily (or almost daily) and just over half tweet more than once a week.

When it came to tweeting about Australians, the most followed was Hugh Jackman.

Luke Hemmings and Michael Clifford of Five Seconds of Summer tied at #2.

Troye Sivan was at #4, after which was Iggy Azalea (#5),  Cody Simpson (#6), Callum Hood and Ashton Irwin of 5SOS (#7 and #8 respectively), Miranda Kerr (#9) and Chris Hemsworth (#10).

When it came to musicians who got tweet pulses racing, only two Australians could do that.

That was Troye Sivan at #7 and 5SOS’s Irwin at #8.

Ariane Grande was on top of this list, followed by Harry Styles (#2), Shawn Mendes (#3),Kanye West (#4), Louis Tomlinson (#5), Taylor Swift (#6) Camilla Cabello (#9) and Nicki Minaj (#10).

In 2018, the most tweeted entertainment hashtag was South Korean pop band #BTS, and then #MAFS, #LouisTomlinson, #HarryStyles, #directioners, #SelenaGomez, #RoyalWedding, #MasterChef AU, #MKR and #Eurovision.

The Golden Tweet, retweeted nearly 170,000 times, was by @thomas_violence:

“I love little cultural differences, like how Americans are super-offended by the word cunt but here in Australia, we’re super-offended by school children being slaughtered with automatic weapons.”

Most tweeted hashtag of the year was #auspol (for the fifth year in a row as more Australians joined the political conversation, made their views known and chased their causes as #libspill,  #ClimateChange, #Nauru and #Metoo.

#Q&A showed the ABC-TV show was regularly striking a provocative chord, while the sports tweeters zeroed in on #WorldCup and #AusOpen.

The Fornite game scraped into the top ten Most Tweeted Hashtags.