It has been estimated that round 500 million tweets are posted every day. It is a staggering quantity, virtually 58,000 each second, that tells a narrative of the magnitude of content material being shared on the social media web site.
It is a comparable story over on Instagram. There, customers publish 95 million photographs and movies on daily basis. Add the 2 platforms collectively, and you have greater than 217 billion social media posts made all year long.
Why am I telling you this? Properly, it is time for our annual round-up of the weirdest and wildest posts of 2024 – we had 217 billion to selected from, and, after a lot deliberation, we have whittled them right down to the most effective 20, the crème de la crème.
I will admit it, we have not trawled the lot. Such a process would have been Sisyphean, even when we solely had to take a look at the biking ones, however we’re assured we have the decide of the bunch.
There are contributions from a number of the peloton’s best social media posters. We have the likes of Alison Jackson and Magnus Cort, two riders with fierce race-winning kicks, and a effective eye for content material.
We have additionally welcomed company from exterior of biking, notably tennis star Novak Djokovic and F1 driver Carlos Sainz, each of whom cannot resist sport on two wheels.
So strap in, get your scrolling thumb prepared, and behold the Oscars of biking social media.
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The under 20 posts – the formally stamped better of the 12 months – are in no explicit order. As a substitute, we have offered them chronologically, to assist replay the narrative of yet one more fantastic, and infrequently surreal, season of biking. Here is to extra of the identical in 2025.
1. Earlier than the racing had even begun this season, Specialised gave us a promenade photograph for the ages
We Are Specialised..Meet the category of 2024 with Lotte Kopecky, Demi Vollering and Lorena Wiebes#iamspecialized #wesparksuccess pic.twitter.com/8bPsrIGEVzJanuary 16, 2024
2. The goats have been again to tidy the cobbles at Paris-Roubaix this spring, and this time spherical, we acquired to see the within of their mouths, because of EF
POV: you’re a blade of grass on the Arenberg #Arenberg #ParisRoubaix pic.twitter.com/EssvLWsU9WApril 4, 2024
3. Sadly for Novak, the baseball cap-helmet combo by no means actually caught on
At present I got here ready. #IBI24 pic.twitter.com/b4tRYhZ8d7Could 11, 2024
4. We devoted a whole version of Tweets of the Week to the Giro d’Italia account admin in Could. This was a few of their best work
no caption wanted. get pleasure from. #GirodItalia | @IntermarcheW pic.twitter.com/cmdvV3Sce8Could 12, 2024
5. What the fox?
To begin with, #respecttheriders and do not contact them. Second of all, what the f-#GirodItalia pic.twitter.com/IMOZDHsdiBCould 25, 2024
6. We all the time sit up for Magnus Cort’s lodge room critiques when he is racing, and after he took the chief’s jersey on the Critérium du Dauphiné, we have been handled to a really particular one
7. I appreciated this video a lot that I scouted out Vincent Leygonie on the Olympics in Paris and requested him about it. “I virtually fell by way of the window,” he instructed me of his stunt
8. You possibly can belief Jack Carlin to see the humorous aspect of a crash that ended his Olympic medal hopes within the keirin
9. Tweets of the 12 months wouldn’t be full with out Alison Jackson. This Instagram reel was seen greater than seven million occasions
10. “I can not use unhealthy luck at this time,” stated Demi Vollering when she joyfully took on SBS’s croc problem on the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. She went on to crash that day, lose the yellow jersey, and end second general by 4 seconds. The video now stands as a powerfully foreboding relic
11. The Vuelta a España‘s stage begin inside a Carrefour grocery store was one of many largest speaking factors from the race. Intermarché-Wanty, with a loyal grocery store companion of their very own, have been having none of it
No thanks, solely Intermarché supermarkets ❤️ #LaVuelta24 https://t.co/QooUwcK5cl pic.twitter.com/HhRVbNYZkOAugust 22, 2024
12. It was the crossover we by no means knew we would have liked – double world champion Julian Alaphilippe in entrance of a department of Greggs
13. In October, F1 driver Carlos Sainz revealed the key diet that has been fuelling the world champion all 12 months
🏆 Celebrating my good friend @TamauPogi’s World Champion title with a “Pogaccia” in Monaco! pic.twitter.com/Z0MObS2WoLOctober 1, 2024
14. You can also personal a tiny telephone like Matt Holmes for simply £35 on Amazon
15. After an injury-stricken season, what higher method for Wout van Aert to chill out than dressing up as a squirrel and singing Blur on nationwide tv? Woo hoo!
16. Visma-Lease a Bike’s Giro Aerohead II helmet was one of many largest, and most polarising, tales of the 12 months. In quest of a Halloween costume, Honor Elliott made her personal out of papier-mâché, sculpting it to scale
17. What number of puns are you able to match into one Instagram submit? Quite a bit, when you have the nous of British Biking’s social media admin
18. This submit by no means acquired the viral recognition it deserved, however we have been massive followers of Tom Pidcake right here at Biking Weekly
It is Bake Off day within the workplace. Our designer Georgie has made @tompidcock or Tom Pidcake as she’s calling him… pic.twitter.com/bClxkWbRNJNovember 19, 2024
19. Paralympian Blaine Hunt knew he’d solely have a couple of seconds to go away an impression when he met the King… so he confirmed him a stamp he made from his personal face
20. And at last, we hand over to Elisa Longo Borghini to spherical out the 12 months. The Italian is becoming a member of UAE Crew ADQ subsequent season, and determined to go away Lidl-Trek with a celebratory submit of her time with the workforce. A compilation of her favorite wins, proper? Flawed. Here is her largest fails and falls