Pope Francis won the Internet. Literally.

Zitat Daniel Burke, CNN,12 Nov 2013
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It's official: Pope Francis is the most talked-about person on the planet.

More folks have been chatting about the popular new pontiff online this year than Edward Snowden, Kate Middleton or even the Internet's favorite bad girl, Miley Cyrus.

That's according to the 14th annual survey from the Global Language Monitor, a Texas-based company that trackers top talkers on the web. The GLM says their rankings are based on an analysis of English-language blogs, social media and 275,000 electronic and online news media.

Besides being the Internet's top name, the Pope's Twitter handle, @Pontifex, was the fourth most talked about word thus far in 2013.
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Allerdings stammen die Spitzenreiter in den Top 10 aus der bewährten Hitschmiede Obama:
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The top three words were: "404," the numeric code for a broken web-page; "fail," the one-word taunt for all-things unsuccessful; and "Hashtag," the "#" used to denote topics on Twitter.

Paul JJ Payack, president and "Chief Word Analyst" at GLM says the 404 and "fail" got a big boost from the problematic launch of the Obama administration's website for purchasing health care under the Affordable Care Act.
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PS: ein "Sprachinstitut", das in der Lage ist, "to tracker" statt "to track" in einer Pressemitteilung zu verwenden? "This is the kind of English up with which I will not put" (W. Churchill).