All Things Newsworthy, Bloggable & Tweetable in 2009

This is an end of year post looking at all those extremely newsworthy events in 2009 that got us thinking. So strongly did we feel about some of the things that happened this year, and their consequences, that we had to run online to talk about them. We all had an opinion about these phenomena that we had to share. So newsworthy were they, in fact, that they compelled us to blog and tweet about them. Here they are, the people, objects, and events for 2009 that kept us busy online, and made the Indian digital social space what it was this past year.

1. The Recession

2. Barack Obama inaugration

3. Slumdog Millionaire

4. Terrorism-Taliban-Af-Pak situation

5. Gandhi Memorabilia auction

6. Pramod Muthalik/Ram Sena pub attack
7. Pink Chaddi campaign
8. Violence against women in Bangalore

9. IPL Season 2

10. Fake IPL Blogger
11. Elections 2009

12. Varun Gandhi hate speech

13. Fall of the LTTE

14. Indians attacked in Australia

15. Shiney Ahuja rape case

16. Scrapping of Section 377

17. Michael Jackson’s death

18. Swine Flu/H1N1

19. SRK detained at U.S airport
20. Chinese incursions
21. Jaswant Singh’s expulsion from the BJP

22. Jet Airways pilots’ strike

23. Shashi Tharoor’s Cattle Class & Visa tweets

24. Barack Obama’s Nobel peace prize

25. Liberhan commission report

26. Bhopal gas tragedy anniversary

27. Big budget/hyped Hollywood and Bollywood releases like 'Avatar' & '3 Idiots'
28. Telengana state issue
29. #ChetanBlocks
30. Ruchika molestation case
31. N.D Tiwari scandal
32. Chetan Bhagat/3 idiots controversy
33. David Headley


I should also mention that apart from these specifics, we also spent a lot of time discussing and commenting on every cricket match involving India and the personal lives of Indian celebrities in general.

Are you aware of any that I've missed?

All Things Newsworthy, Bloggable & Tweetable in 2009