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Interesting Facts About Twitter

Twitter is a fantastic platform for businesses and brands to expand their growth opportunities while also staying in touch with their customers. Here are 15 interesting facts about Twitter. After youu2019ve finished reading about these fascinating facts, you might want to tweet a few of them because theyu2019re that good.

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Interesting Facts About Twitter

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  1. Interesting Facts About Twitter. Source:15 Most Interesting Facts About Twitter You Should Know (ScrollDroll)

  2. This translates to over 500 million tweets per day – a lot of text! While this may appear to be a large number, Facebook receives an average of 3 million new posts per minute.

  3. Evan Williams, one of the co-founders of Twitter, suggested the name. Another co-founder, Noah Glass, later began searching a dictionary for words that sounded similar to “Twitch” and discovered Twitter

  4. Chris Messina thought that adding a symbol like # with a word or phrase could: “create an instant channel that anybody can search, join and participate in.” He wrote a 2,000-word proposal for this idea and took it to: Biz Stone, one of the Twitter co-founders at the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. It was dismissed for being too nerdy. However, the idea first became quite popular during San Diego Wildfires in 2007 and was later adopted by twitter in 2008-09.

  5. The top 5 most followed Twitter accounts belong to Barack Obama, Justin Beiber, Katy Perry, Rihanna, and Christiano Ronaldo. (Followers as of Feb 2022)

  6. Every week since 2011, the Swedish government has given the keys to the official Twitter handle to any citizen. The goal was to depict the country as seen through the eyes of different citizens.

  7. The name “Twttr” was chosen as the official name for this service; there was a popular trend those days to drop vowels in the name of companies and services.

  8. The 140-character limit was imposed due to the prevalence of mobile phones which had the limit of 160 characters for Text Messages.

  9. Donald Trump has been indefinitely banned from Twitter following the Capitol Hill riots in 2021 due to the risk of further incitement of violence.

  10. Despite the fact that Twitter was founded in 2006, Larry’s identity was not confirmed until early 2012. While many people had speculated and questioned whether Larry the bird had a name or not, it was confirmed by Ryan Sarver, a Twitter manager, in a tweet.

  11. This is due to the fact that it is in violation of government regulations. Twitter had been banned in Nigeria, but the embargo was lifted after securing Twitter’s commitment to open a local office, appoint a local representative, and pay domestic taxes.

  12. One of Twitter’s co-founders, Jack Dorsey, was the first person to use the service. “Just setting up my twttr,” wrote Jack Dorsey in his first tweet on 21st March 2006. The public launch of the social networking site didn’t happen until July 15, 2006.

  13. Information & Graphics Source: 15 Most Interesting Facts About Twitter You Should Know (https://www.scrolldroll.com/) Thank You!

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