Curiosities Of Twitter On the 12th Anniversary Of Its Creation

Currently, Twitter bills more than 2,500 million dollars annually and has a market value of more than 10 billion dollars.

On March 21, the American software developer, Jack Dorsey, would change the world with the creation of one of the most important social networks of recent times, Twitter.

Therefore, we have researched the bird’s social network and placed the 12 most important curiosities on its twelfth anniversary with information from Axis 21.

 1. On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey created this new social network and it is estimated that it has more than 500 million users, generating 65 million tweets a day and handling more than 800,000 search requests daily.

2. The first Twitter was sent by Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006, and said: “just setting up my twttr”. Something like “just configure my Twitter.”

3. The network allows to send text messages of short length, with a maximum of 280 characters (originally 140), called twits.

4. Currently, Twitter invoices more than 2,500 million dollars annually and has a value in the stock market exceeding 10,000 million dollars.

5. According to Nicholas Carlson in “The True Story of Twitter”, ” Ex-Googler Evan Williams had a startup called Odeo. It was going to be a podcasting platform. Evan asked his friend, another ex-Googler named Biz Stone, to join him.

6. The mentions, the, and the retweets were used by the users before Twitter incorporated them as elements of “official” social network.

7. The logo, that blue bird on a white background has a name: Larry. The name is a play on words with the animal itself, in English, the result is Larry Bird. Biz Stone was a fan of the Boston Celtics when he was a teenager, and Larry Bird was his idol, so they decided to give him that name.

8. When Apple launched iTunes podcasting and made the Odeo podcasting platform irrelevant, Evan and Biz and an employee named Jack Dorsey decided to create something called Twitter. Odeo investors did not like Twitter, and Evan did them a great favor by buying all their shares and making them complete.

9. At the beginning of 2008, the Twitter team was composed of 18 people. The following year, Twitter had multiplied its workforce by four and continued to grow.

10. The market research company Pear Analytics, based in San Antonio, Texas, analyzed 2,000 twits and found that it was used: chitchat: 40%, Conversations 38%, Retweets 9%, Auto promotion 5%, Spam 4%, news 4%.

11. According to a Semiocast study , in 2012, the countries with the highest number of Twitter users are the United States 107.7 million, Brazil 33.3 million, Japan 29.9 million, United Kingdom 23 million, Indonesia 19 million, India 12 million, Mexico 10.5 million, Philippines 8 million, Spain 7.9 million and Canada 7.5 million.

12. The account that has ever tweeted the most was @Yougakduan_00, from a Japanese girl that reached 36,402,262 twits. The social network closed the account by tweeting too much.