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The Rio Olympics, the American presidential election and Pokémon Go were the top global trends on Twitter in 2016.

The social media site says Rio2016 was the most-tweeted-about topic around the world, followed by Election2016 and PokemonGo. Euro2016, Oscars, Brexit, Trump and BlackLivesMatter also made the top 10.

A Spanish gamer known as elrubius originated the year’s most popular tweet: It reads “Limonada” (lemonade) and was retweeted more than 1.3 million times.

One Direction’s Harry Styles had the second-most-repeated post — quoting a Taylor Swift song — with more than 700,000 retweets.

A post-election tweet from Hillary Clinton encouraging little girls to recognize their power and seize opportunities was the third-most popular of the year with 634,560 retweets.

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