Top Twitter Facts | Twitter 7th Birthday

Twitter celebrating its 7th birthday today, 21/3/2013. It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and July, in San Francisco. It is a micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as “Tweets”.

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The service is available in around 20 languages. It has over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets/day and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. It is one of the 10 most visited websites on the Internet.

Amazing is that , this great success has been achieved in a very short period and playing pivotal role in so many people’s work , business. Interestingly, it is achieved by just clicking a button “JUST FOLLOWED” ;).

Here, are some unknown Facts about Twitter

1. Twitter has a bird as its logo, that’s why when you join you’re an egg. And your home button is a birdhouse.

2. The North Korean government has a Twitter account, which is blocked by South Korea.

3. Addiction of twitter causes the same changes in the brain, that are seen in cocaine users.

4. It literally forces you to improve your writing skills . The 140 character limit helps you master the art of getting to the point.

5. If Twitter raised the character limit from 140 to 200, it would finally allow 90 million Germans to finish a sentence.

6. It has more pages dedicated to musician/actor Justin Bieber than anyone else.

7. If it were a country, it would be the 12th largest country in the world.

8. The name of the social network was originally “Twttr,” later changed to Twitter.

9. It took 3 years, 2 months and 1 day to get to the billionth tweet.

10. Barack Obama’s victory tweet was the most retweeted tweet ever, counting more than 8,00,000 retweets.

11. 32% of all Internet users are using Twitter.

12. Over the span of 16 days, the London Olympics generated 150 million tweets.

13. 69% of followings are suggested by friends.

14. Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry have more followers than the entire populations of Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Canada, Argentina and Egypt.

15. The average user has 126 followers.

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