Twitter has become one of the most popular social networking platforms in present time. Since its launch in March 21, 2006, it has grown tremendously in terms of its user base.
The term Twitter means the chirping sound made by certain birds in excitement and flutter. Twitter is almost 7.5 years old now and has a huge user base which is almost 500 million registered users. Twitter has daily active users of 100 million from all over the world.
1. Australians; The Third Most Active Users
Twitter has over 500 million registered users but the number of active users on twitter is just 140 million. Around 300,000 new visitors visit twitter each day and 11 accounts are created on twitter each second. Almost 1 million accounts are added to twitter each day. 25% of twitter account has no follower and almost 40% of twitter accounts have never tweeted.
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2. Obama On Twitter
Obama has 119K ask Obama tweets out of which 26K is the participants and 40K are the unique questions. If Obama decided to answer all the questions asked on his twitter account with the speed of 19 questions in 60 minutes, it will take 3 months for Obama to answer all the questions without eating or sleeping.
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3. Twitter Vs Facebook
As compare to facebook 66% more clients traded on twitter that made twitter a much successful public offering as compared to Facebook.
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4. The Most Amazing Twitter Statistics
Twitter has 23.17 million active monthly users, and 52.7 million daily active users of twitter are from US.
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5. Blame Twitter
Almost 233 million tweets are made each day which is 1 tweet by every 10 internet users all over the world. For every one tweet 128 tons of carbon dioxide is released in the atmosphere. For every 27 tweets, tons of toxic chemicals are released in the atmosphere.
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6. Musicians And Their Fake Twitter Followers
Many of the top musicians in the world have a huge base of fake followers. Starting from Jenifer Lopez who has 13% good followers, 32% inactive followers and 55% fake followers. Similarly Justin Timberlake has 54% fake twitter followers, Lady Gaga has 52% fake followers and Adele has 54% fake twitter followers.
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7. The Who, Why, And How Of Twitter
Since the launch of twitter it has enjoyed tremendous growth all over the world. Both private users and public corporations have incorporated this micro blogging site for sharing news and information. 8% of US internet users make use of twitter and more than 460K new accounts are created each day on Twitter.
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8. Twitter Showdown: Mitt Romney Vs. Barack Obama
Many celebrities and popular personalities are sharing the twitter battle for fame and number of followers. Barack Obama also has a huge number of fan base that has offered him 12 million followers as compared to Mitt Romney who has 373.8K followers.
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9. The History Of Twitter
Twitter was launched in March 21st 2006 and in July 15th 2006 Twitter was launched for the public. In August 2007 Chris Messina became the first user to use the hash tag option given by twitter. In March 2008 Twitter hit the number of 1.3 million active users.
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10. Twitter Active Users In Arab World
Total number of active twitters users in Arab countries till March 2012 was 1,311,882. The maximum number of users on twitter was from Kuwait and the total number of active users in Kuwait was 58,900,000.
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11. Twitter In Healthcare
Twitter has been playing an influential role in Pharma industry with multiple popular companies participating in tweets regarding healthcare facts. Top 5 healthcare companies which are most followed are Pfizer, Novartis, GE healthcare, GSK and Boehringer. Many of the popular healthcare companies have been tweeting from the year 2008 and 2009. As compare to last year which was 40% this year almost 71% journalists make use of social media platforms for reporting.
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12. Just How Big Is Twitter In 2012?
Twitter has half a billion registered profile and almost 100 million active users in USA. Top 3 countries using Twitter are USA, Japan and Brazil. United States has 107.7 million users, Japan has 29.9 million users and Brazil has 33.3 million twitter users. Almost 175 million tweets are done on tweeter ach day.
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13. Twitter Facts And Figures
There are 450,000 twitter accounts created every day that is almost 52 accounts every second from all over the world. In last 6-7 years twitter has created such massive brand image that almost 88% people in the world are aware about twitter. Every minute there are 138,888 tweets and almost 52% users update their status every day. 5PM is the best time to get re-tweeted and 24% of all the twitter users check their account several times a day.
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14. How People Are Using Twitter
37% of twitters users check their twitter account multiple times a day and 64% users make use of twitter from twitter.com where as 16% use it with the help of their mobile applications.
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15. How To Tweet
To use twitter one can go to twitter.com and create an account with the help of user name, password and email account. Before starting the tweet it is suggested to verify the user account.
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16. How Twitter Works As a Q and A
Twitter works as a most widely used question and answer apps. Each month, on twitter almost 3 million questions are asked by the users. On twitter 13% questions are asked about the product recommendations, 12% people seek tech support on Twitter, 11% people ask questions about the local suggestion and 8% questions are on entertainment and media.
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17. Twitter Cheat Sheet
Twitter brand engagement rates are 17% higher on weekend which is Saturday and Sunday yet only 19% of the brand tweet happens on weekdays.
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18. Euro 2012 Twitter Chatter
Spain won the championship in Euro 2012 and games have already gone. Golden boot in the game was won by Fernando Torres and twitter has actively changing the way sports fan gets associated with their favourite games.
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19. The Art Of Getting Retweets
To get retweets one must use certain phrases and characters along with giving the credit to people who retweet. For retweet it is essential to leave the space for @RT and retain it as much original as possible.
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20. A Year Of Twitter
2010 was an important year for twitter as it transformed the web curiosity to every day necessity for most of twitter lovers.
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