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Twitter users had a very interesting year throughout 2013. Twitter is a very active micro blogging site having more than 30 million active users. Despite of many difficulties, Twitter is unique from other social media sites. Listed below are some of the top lists of things one must know about Twitter.
1. The first Tweet
The initial Tweet forwarded during March 21, 2006 by Jack Dorsey (Co Founder). In addition, the first tweet content was very simple one “Just setting up my twttr”. The first Tweet from outer space, was sent out by Astronaut Mike Massimino during May 2009.
2. Twitter Rejected Facebook Offer
During November 2008, Facebook put an forward an offer worth $500 million. At that time, Twitter was carrying around 6 million registered users. In addition, the latest reports show that Twitter contains more than 232 million users.
3. Twitter users with the most followers
- According to the 2013 report, the Twitter with most followers is Katy Perry with more than 49 million followers. After her, the leading users are Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Barack Obama.
- The common brand containing most followers is You Tube, and Instagram.
- User with most Tweets is Yougakduan with more than 37,388,113 Tweets.
4. Event with most Tweets
The most popular event with Tweets per second was during a viewing of 1986 animated film Castle in the Sky in Japan. This was during August 3, 2013 with 143,199 tweets per second. MTV Video Music Awards is yet another TV show, which is the most popular event with top amount of tweets per minute. And do you know the average amount of Tweets per day?? It is more than 500 million.
5. Origin of Twitter
Twitter’s starting point took place at Odeo, a company developed by Noah Glass and Evan Williams. This company was launched during the year 2005.
6. Importance of @, #, RTs and Media
A hash tag plays a huge role to increase engagement by 100% for journalist and organizations. Retweets and “@”increase followers. Tweets with media files have 4 times better engagements.
7. Larry
Larry is the name of the bird used as Twitter’s mascot. The name was given to this bird after Boston Celtic Larry Bird. This name is preferred, due to the reason, that the co- founder Biz Stone is a Boston native.
8. Tweet by means of Text Message
With the mobile app. one can tweet via text messaging too. One can easily add this by going through your Twitter account settings.
9. US State Department seeks Twitter for help
Due to the global impact of Twitter, US State department seeks help of Twitter to delay upgrade system, which would interrupt daytime service in Iran.
10. Twitter traffic around the World
United States, Japan and France are some of the places, which make up more than half of Twitter traffic. Among these, United States makes up more than 30% of Twitter traffic.
