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Twitter Facts

We all are familiar with the word 'Twitter'.So here are some enthuastic facts about twitter that will blow your mind :-
  • The US Airways crash in New York City’s Hudson River in January 2009 heralded Twitter as becoming the prominent news breaking social media network
  • In 2010 Twitter started monetizing its platform with promoted tweets, trends and accounts, 4 years after it launched in March 2006
  • In 2011 it teamed up with Apple and Twitter was integrated into Apple’s mobile operating system IOS 5. This provided a huge surge in user acquisition
  • For fun in 2014 it launched a “Discover your  first tweet” service.
  • Timeline views for the last 3 months touched 182 billiony
  • Revenue at Twitter is approaching an annualised rate of $2 billion a year. The latest quarter revenue results were $432 million which was a 97 percent increase.
  • Monthly active users (MAU) sit currently at 288 million
  • There are 3,600 employees
  • 50% of the employees are engineers
  • 80% of Twitter active users are on mobile
  • Vine (the looping video app) has 40 million users
  • 500 million tweets are sent per day
  • Three of the five richest people in the world have a verified Twitter account. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Larry Ellison have a combined $206.2 billion, according to Forbes, and are all sending 140-character messages.
  • The hashtag (#) first proposed by the user Chris Messina debuted in August, 2007. The common wisdom at the time was that it would be “too techy” to catch on. Chris now has over 75,000 followers.

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