Trending on Twitter: Brazil elections, Nobel prize and #cantwait

What The Trend, a Twitter aggregator that positions itself as “the front page of the real time web”, has released some rather surprising findings of the biggest Twitter trends for this recent week. Strangely enough the Chilean miners were beaten by a South Korean pop star, proving once again that one can never underestimate the huge impact of social networks in Asia.

There is the usual smattering of celebrity-ridden scandal, sports and current affairs, all mixed in with a couple of memes that generated enough interest to take the world by storm.

Read on to see the full list of the week’s Twitter trends.

1. SUPER JUNIOR: Kim Hee Chul of Korean band Super Junior tweeted a number of self-drawn pictures, and fans are excitedly retweeting them

2. CHILEAN MINING RESCUE: Rescue operation “San Lorenzo” successfully freed 33 trapped Chilean miners from the collapsed San Jose Mine near Copiapo/Chileabout. The real-time TV feed led to not only tweets and trends about the operation itself, but about the individual miners as they were rescued one-at-a-time.

3. #in10years: People are tweeting things about how they think the world will change in 10 years.

4. GLEE (TV SHOW): The character Finn, on the TV show “Glee”, saw a Jesus impression burnt into his grilled cheese on the October 5th 2010 episode, thus the episode name “Grilled Cheesus.”

5. #wheniwasakid: People are talking about what they did when they was a kid.

6. NFL: The most discussed news from the world of Major League Football was Randy Moss being traded from the New England Patriots to the Minnesota Vikings.

7. NOBEL PRIZE: The 2010 Nobel Prizes were announced this week. The Nobel Prize is awarded each year to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics. People most discussed Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer, who won in the field of Literature, and British physiologist Robert Edwards who won the Nobel Prize for medicine for his work on the development of human in-vitro fertilization (IVF).

8. #TwoThingsThatDontMix: People are tweeting about two things that they don’t think go together.

9. DUTCH POLITICS: The Dutch Christian Democrats (CDA) formed a coalition with the Dutch Liberals (VVD) with formal support of the Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) in an effort to form a minority government.

10. Fan of a Fan Remix: The leaked remix (featuring Drake, T.I., Fabulous, Kanye West, Andre 3000 and Rick Ross) of Chris Brown’s hit song “Deuces,” off from the “Fan of a Fan” mixtape, generated a lot of excitement.