Twitter Facts
Twitter Facts
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Interesting Twitter Facts: |
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Twitter was conceived by employees at a company called Odeo. In October 2006 the employees and creators of Twitter, along with other Odeo members, purchased Odeo and Twitter. |
In 2007 Twitter was formed as its own company. |
Twitter's popularity grew rapidly after a conference in 2007 called the South by Southwest Interactive conference, where it met with great enthusiasm and increased tweets from 20,000 a day to more than 60,000. |
By 2008 Twitter was posting 100 million tweets each quarter, and by 2012 it was up to 340 million tweets per day. |
From launch until its 1 billionth tweet, it took 3 years, 2 months, and 1 day. |
Every second there are 10 mentions of Starbucks on tweets. |
The 2012 Presidential election was the most tweeted US political event in its history. |
It is estimated that 32% of the people using the internet also use Twitter. |
Lady Gaga is the most followed Twitterer with more than 33 million followers. |
Approximately 27% of all Twitterers live in the United States. |
Half of Twitter users are on mobile devices. |
Saudi Arabia is ranked as the fastest growing Twitter nation in the world with a 300% growth rate of users. |
The majority (60%) of Twitter users are female. |
Approximately 40% of the people who have registered for a Twitter account have never sent a tweet. |
Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Warren Buffet are three of the richest people in the world. They all have Twitter accounts. |
When retweeting a tweet a user types RT before the post. If they modify the tweet they include MT to symbolize 'modified tweet' before the tweet. |
The 'unfollow' button option on Twitter was originally going to be labeled as "leave'. |
Twitter has been approached by Facebook at least twice to sell the company but Twitter refused. |
There were 1,600 new millionaires created because of the Twitter IPO. There were three billionaires created from Twitter fortunes as well - Peter Benton, Jack Dorsey, and Evan Williams. |
If you live in China you can't use Twitter or Facebook but you can use LinkedIn. |
Ellen DeGeneres created the most retweeted tweet in 2014. She was hosting the Oscars and took a selfie with several celebrities in the background and sent it out. This resulted in 3.4 million retweets. |
Ashton Kutcher was the first Twitter user to gain 1 million followers. |
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