Here are some twitter facts that i bet you have never heard. You may have being on Twitter for years but unaware of some interesting facts about the social media platform. See them below.
1. This was Twitter’s first ever homepage.
The site opened to the public on July 15, 2006. The first person to send a tweet was Co-founder Dorset, beating Biz Stone by a minute—on March 21, 2006, at 4:50 p.m. The tweet now has more than 50,000 retweets.
2. Twitter was founded on a play ground.
Founding team member Dom Sagolla says the group went on the highest point of a slide at a play ground in South Park, a little neighborhood in San Francisco, and Jack Dorsey talked about a “thought so simple that you don’t even think it—you simply write.” This little motivation has transformed into a multibillion-dollar organization.
3. Highest Follows On Twitter
The user with the highest base of followership is American singer Katy Perry with over 101 million followers, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Canada, Argentina and Egypt combined. Yesu??
4. Account That Follows Most Users
@ArabicBest is in the lead for the account following the most users; the profile shows it follows 2.4 million accounts.
5. Highest number of tweets
@Yougakduan_00, a girl from Japan holds the record for the highest number of tweets with an astonishing 36,402,262 tweets before Twitter suspended her account, likely because of the excessive tweeting. So unfortunate ?
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6. The bird on Twitter logo actually has a name
Yes, you read it right, the popular iconic bird you see in Twitter’s logo shown in TV commercials, print ads and practically every website is named Larry, —was named after Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird.
7. Twitter was almost called Twitch.
Before finalizing on the name, the team looked at the Oxford English Dictionary. “We found the word Twitter,” Dorsey says. “And Twitter means a short inconsequential burst of information, chirps from birds. And we were like, that describes exactly what we’re doing here.”
8. The domain name was taken already
The domain name twitter.com was already taken as at 2006 when the company was starting up, they had to buy it from the owner, the page was empty before it was bought. This is really a big lesson for those that understands what business means. No one makes it by remaining idle no matter your great potentials. You gat to work!
9. What Hangtag actually means
Ending a tweet with an empty hashtag is called a hangtag, and it’s Twitter’s version of the mic drop, the team at Medium declared recently.
10. Dorsey was reportedly brokenhearted when Instagram was sold to Facebook for $1 billion in cash and stock in April 2012.
11. Twitter Co founder Dorsey has not posted on his instagram account ever since Facebook purchased the company in 2012. Chai! See bad belle
12. Crazy Twitter Growth
It took Three years, two months and one day in between from the first tweet to the 1 billionth tweet.
13. Your First Tweet On Twitter
Do you know you can find your first ever tweet by visiting First-Tweets.com? Hmmm… No you know.
14. Numbers of Tweets on Twitter Per Day
The service sees more than 500 million tweets a day now.
15. Twitter Trying to Catch Facebook
Twitter (288 million) has 1 billion fewer monthly active users than Facebook (1.39 billion) has.
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