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Some Interesting Facts About Twitter You May Not Know About

| Published on November 18, 2018

Twitter was founded in March 2006 and since then it has come a long way. Here is a look at some interesting facts about Twitter you may not know anything about.

Some Interesting Facts About Twitter You May Not Know About

Twitter was originally named as “Twttr”.  Later it was changed.

 

Twitter can handle 1.6 billion search queries per day.

 

The most retweeted Tweet was Ellen’s Oscars selfie.

 

At present, the time taken to send a billion Tweets is only 48 hrs.

 

Twitter is used by 32% of all Internet users.

 

Katy Perry(@katyperry) has the most number of followers on Twitter with 106,868,273 followers

Some Interesting Facts About Twitter You May Not Know About

 A user proposed the hashtag feature.  It appeared in August 2007 for the first time.

 

80% of world leaders use Twitter.

 

Barack Obama is the Top world leader on Twitter.

Some Interesting Facts About Twitter You May Not Know About

When you Tweet with an image, the increase in engagement will be 5 times as compared to text.

 

40% of Twitter users don’t tweet. They read news, click links and follow accounts.

 

10 people are employed by McDonald’s to run their Twitter account.

Some Interesting Facts About Twitter You May Not Know About

Alexa ranks twitter on the 11th spot.

 

There are 241 million monthly active users for Twitter.

Some Interesting Facts About Twitter You May Not Know About

500 million Tweets are sent per day.

 

Most of the active users for Twitter are from mobile, which is 76%.

 

23% of accounts are from U.S.  Rest 77% is from the rest of the world.

 

Twitter supports more than 35 languages

 

It took 3 years, 2 months and 1 day to get the billionth tweet

 

The average number of tweets that a user sends is 307

 

36 million is the number of unique visitors to Twitter

 

1 in 13 Tweets contains a Curse word

 

75% of recruiters have 100 Twitter followers or lesser

 

72% of followers of a brand are likely to purchase the product from that brand

 

1440 hard-boiled eggs are consumed at Twitter HQ weekly

Some Interesting Facts About Twitter You May Not Know About

 585 gallons of coffee per week are consumed at Twitter HQ

Some Interesting Facts About Twitter You May Not Know About

Narendra Modi, Shah Rukh Khan, and Amitabh Bachchan are the most followed Indians on Twitter

Some Interesting Facts About Twitter You May Not Know About

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