Twitter, founded in March of 2006 by Jack Dorsey, has over 650 million members. Thirty-two percent of Internet users use Twitter and 37.6% of that number use Twitter for conversational purposes. On average, 340 million tweets are sent every day. Sixty percent of Twitter users are females. Jack Dorsey created Twitter before most mobile phones were able to send text messages. He wanted a service in which he could send a message to and it would distribute that message to all of his friends, and so he created “Twitter”. Today, Twitter is one of the top 10 most visited websites on the Internet.
While Twitter can be used to share pointless information with friends and peers, it can also be used in many useful ways. Many businesses are now using Twitter to advertise their products, and many political leaders are also using it to get their messages across. Twitter can also be used in many other ways, such as to share breaking news, talk about sports, and also share the latest news about the most popular celebrities. |
Basic Facts and Numbers:
- Twitter has a higher appeal to younger users, people who live in cities and "non-whites". - 18% of all Internet users use Twitter. - Twitter has a total of 645,750,000 registered members. - 135,000 people sign up for Twitter everyday. - 58 million tweets are send everyday. - It only takes five days for 1 billion tweets to be sent. - 9,100 tweets are sent every second. - As of October, 2013, the most popular person on Twitter was Justin Bieber with more than 40 million followers. What is Twitter? Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 140 characters. Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. |