Top Five Things You Did Not Know About Twitter

Twitter is known as the world’s most famous micro blogging sites which had very interesting 2013. For users, the social networking site represents a simplified way of expressing their thoughts and emotions, that’s why over 30 million people all over the world are enjoying its membership. Nowadays, the micro blogger is facing some disappointments and business evaluators state that it cannot be expected to offer any profit until 2015. Still with the 8 successful years of the social networking site, it earned great global phenomenon than just doing internal messaging.

Well, ups and downs are integrated part of an online market and this fact cannot be denied that twitter has changed the world. Your emotions fitted in 140 characters seem a lot for others and when they retweet on it, you can understand how capable you are to impress others through online expressions. Here is the list of top five interesting things about twitter you might have not being known-

The first tweet

On 21st March, 2006, the co founder of twitter Jack Dorsey sent the very first tweet, ‘just setting up my twttr’. You will love to know about the first tweet sent from outer space by the Astronaut Mike Massimino. In May, 2009, his tweet was about his good experiences about space where he was enjoying magnificent views and having fun. He told in his tweet that the time for fun has begun now.

The events with the most tweets per second

Most of the tweets per second occurred in Aug, 2013 when in Japan, animated film castle of the sky was being viewed. The number of tweets per second was 143,199. On other hand, the most amounts of tweets per minute (306,100) occurred during MTV video music award in 2013. In this program Miley Cyrus was the center of attraction.

Twitter denied facebook’s proposal

In November, 2008, twitter was proposed to be acquired by facebook only for $500 million. Till the time, the site was bearing about six million registered users. That time twitter rejected facebook’s proposal and continued working individually. Till, oct 2013, twitter become the micro blogger with over 232 million users registered with the estimate of about $11 to 30 billion.

Larry, the twitter bird

The bird became icon of twitter’s mascot is named Larry. Larry has been named after Boston Celtic great Larry bird. It is so because the co founder of twitter Biz Stone was Boston native.

Twitter data

As per the record of July 2013, twitter around the world possessed most traffic in US (about 30%), Japan (20%) and France (6.8%). Other important nations for twitter to bear its traffic percentage are Brazil, UK and Turkey.

All the above facts about twitter will let you explore more about your favorite micro blogger. Apart from this some more interesting things are there to know for you that you can discover in internet. For instance, the most followed user of twitter is singer Katy. Apart from this, Justin beaver, Lady Gaga and Barack Obama also possess good number of followers in twitter.

Author resource

This article is written by Aalbert Lee. He has given valuable information on how to manage a company which is at the top position in the market and also to handle competition. He is now a writer who has taken to educate readers more about online marketing company and its ways.

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