Some unknown facts about Twitter

• Twitter was created mainly to stay connected with a group of friends through SMS channels. It was never meant to be used on the internet much and that was the reason for its 140 character limit.
• The original name was twttr
• The team finally settled on the name ‘twitter, which means ‘chirps from birds’ in essence ‘a short burst of inconsequential information’

First tweet

• The first tweet on Twitter was by Jack Dorsey and the tweet was “Just setting up my twttr” on 21st March 2006.

2nd largest “search engine”

• Twitter handles 24 billion search queries a month.
  More than Yahoo (9.4 billion search queries) and Bing (4.1 billion search queries) and less than Google (88 billion search queries)

Funding and revenue

Twitter was founded in 2006 and for the first 3 years as a company Twitter made a total of ‘zero’ dollars in revenues.Twitter is expected to make $1.54 billion by the end of 2013 with over a billion users.Twitter has over over 65 millions tweets everyday and that averages to 750 tweets per second.

World’s most democratic Twitter account
The Official Twitter account for Sweden is run by a different citizen every week.
This Twitter account works on a simple concept of letting every willing Sweden citizens to take control of Sweden’s official Twitter account for a week.
The person handling the account for a particular week gets full freedom to tweet whatever he/she likes to. They are also free to update profile picture and account bio.

A Twitter Account is tweeting every word in the English language Since December 2007, Task Will Complete in 2013.

McDonalds employs 10 people to run their Twitter Account
Most of the times we don’t know know the face behind any company’s official social media profile but McDonalds revealed that few months back . But, It wasn’t a single person but they have a team of 10 people running their official Twitter account.
Hiring 10 people only for handling their official Twitter account, It shows how much importance is being paid to social media presence of the company.

These are some facts on tweets, hashtags and others

1. 135,000 Twitter accounts are registered every day

2. 58 million tweets a day

3. There are 2.1 billion searches on Twitter every 24 hours

4. Some of the top and interesting hashtags include the potential reach generated by these hashtags:  #mancrushmonday (5.5 million), #TransformationTuesday(10.17 million) and #ThrowBackThursday (31.4 million)

5. Justin Bieber has the largest following with over 44 million followers

6. Katy Perry is second with more than 42 million

7. Lady Gaga comes in third at 40 million plus

Twitter statistics infographic

This infographic is courtesy of  Masters in finance and researched by Merrill Cook.