Twitter celebrates its seventh birthday on Thursday.
On Mar 21, 2006, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey (@jack) sent the first tweet. It said “just setting up my twttr”.
In the last year alone they have made huge progress towards stability and performance.There are now more than 400 full time employees working at Twitter.Twitter’s impact in the areas of social responsibility, politics, sports, media, and more.
“Twitter users now send more than 140 million Tweets a day which adds up to a billion Tweets every 8 days—by comparison, it took 3 years, 2 months, and 1 day to reach the first billion Tweets”,said in Twitter official blogpost.
Interesting Facts about Twitter:
Twitter is available in more than 25 languages, including right-to-left languages like Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu.
Barack Obama’s victory tweet was the most retweeted tweet ever with more than 800K retweets.
Four more years. twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012
The number of accounts that have been verified as authentic—those with a blue badge—is 47,815, but Twitter CEO Dick Costolo’s (@dickc) is not among them.
Lady Gaga – the most followed Twitterer, with almost 33 million followers – gains followers faster than Twitter adds new accounts.
The official Twitter account for Sweden is run by a different citizen every week.
