- Twitter was created mainly to stay connected with a group of friends through SMS channels. It was never meant to be used on the internet much and that was the reason for its 140 character limit.
- Twitter was mostly funded through venture capitalists who funded most of the $ 50 million, Twitter is still operating on.
- Twitter was founded in 2006 and for the first 3 years as a company Twitter made a total of ‘zero’ dollars in revenues.
- Twitter is expected to make 1.54 billion dollars by the end of 2013 with over a billion users.
- Twitter has over over 65 millions tweets everyday and that averages to 750 tweets per second.
- There are over 70,000 registered applications for Twitter created mostly by people who have no connection to Twitter.
- There are over 75 million Twitter accounts of which only 2546 accounts are verified.
- Tweets like “i am having lunch’ became known as pointless babbles. A research showed that about 40% of the tweets are in this category. read more
| 4 Ways Non-Profits Can Jump Into Google+ Mashable Yes, your Facebook and Twitter presences are still important — and will continue to be — but the new social network in town has lots of great features you can take advantage of right now. While Google publicly announced that group and business pages ... See all stories on this topic » |
| What to Consider When Developing a High-Traffic, Real-Time Web App Mashable This post was co-authored by Chris Conrad, an engineering manager who is part of the Search, Network and Analytics team at LinkedIn. While interacting with social media and other consumer websites has become routine for many of us, ensuring a seamless, ... See all stories on this topic » |
No comments:
Post a Comment