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"Summertime, and the tweetin' is easy. The end of June offers a slew of interesting Twitter trends to parse, and below we have the top topics of conversation.\nIf you've been following our weekly Twitter trends series, the top of this list should look familiar. Soccer, Father's Day and the NBA Finals, all in the top three throughout the month, remain so in aggregate. Selena Gomez and her beau Justin Bieber both make the chart of course, but the more surprising trends include mention of MySpace. Earlier in the week, Twitter users reminisced about the heyday of the faltering social network, eerily portending its paltry $35 million sale which was confirmed just yesterday.\nTo see the full list, check out the chart below. Because this is a topical list, hashtag memes and games have been omitted from the chart. The aggregate is based on Twitter's own trending algorithm, and does not necessarily reflect raw tweet volume.\nYou can check Twitter trends from the past in our Top Twitter Topics section.\nTop Twitter Trends: June 2011\n\n\n    \nRank\nTopic\nIntensity\nDescription\n\n\n    \n#1\nSoccer/Football\n4\nSoccer players, managers, coaches and owners generating a lot of conversation this week were Andre Villas-Boas, Lionel Messi, Sylvain Marveaux, Daniel Levy, Joel Natalino Santana, Vitor Pereira and Raheem Sterling.\n\n\n    \n#2\nFather's Day\n3\nSome users celebrated their fathers while others lamented fathers who were absent in their lives.  Relevant hashtags included #ILoveMyDadEvenThough and #MyDadGetsNoCallBecause along with #HappyFathersDay and #BestDad.\n\n\n    \n#3\nNBA Finals\n3\nThe Dallas Mavericks beat the Miami Heat to win the 2011 NBA Finals in Game 6 on June 12. Dallas player Dirk Nowitzki was named MVP. Tweeters responded with a mix of admiration for Maverick players and even more digs at the Miami Heat. Later in the month, the NBA Draft was televised live.\n\n\n    \n#4\nJustin Bieber\n2\nJustin Bieber trended this week just because his fans wanted to thank him for, well, just being him (#ThanksJustin). He also won an MTV Movie Award. Yes, he's a triple threat.\n\n\n    \n#5\nSelena Gomez\n2\nFans of the teen singer/actress Selena Gomez trended \"Poor Selena\" when MTV Movie Awards host Jason Sudeikis made a joke at her expense regarding her relationship with Justin Bieber. Gomez was later hospitalized for a minor ailment after an appearance on The Tonight Show.\n\n\n    \n#6\nNHL\n2\nThe Boston Bruins won the NHL Stanley Cup in Game 7 on June 15. But hockey really rose in Twitter trends because some unhappy Vancouver Canucks fans rioted in the downtown area. In response, Twitter users gave Canuck fans some advice (\"Dear Vancouver\") after their loss.\n\n\n    \n#7\nMySpace\n1\nThis June, many Twitter users remembered the time, long, long ago when they had a MySpace account. There was also buzz that News Corp. was selling MySpace to Specific Media for $35 million.\n\n\n    \n#8\nSummer/Winter Solstice\n1\nFor the Northern Hemisphere, June 21 was the longest day of the year and the first day of summer. But for those in the Southern Hemisphere, the day marked the beginning of winter. Notably, Google commissioned Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami to create a Google doodle to mark the solstice.\n\n\n    \n#9\nLil Wayne\n1\n\"Dear Anne (Stan Part II)\" is a leaked Lil Wayne song, the sequel to Eminem's \"Stan.\" It won't be on Lil Wayne's 9th studio album, Tha Carter IV, due out in August.\n\n\n    \n#10\nE3\n1\nThe Electronic Entertainment Expo, known as E3, is an annual trade show for the computer and video game industry where many new games are launched or have trailers or previews released. The biggest trends were Playstation Vita, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and Far Cry 3.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nData aggregate courtesy of What the Trend.\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, 123render"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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