Micro blogging site Twitter (Twitter) has become one of the strongest means of communication of its thoughts in today’s world. Today 21st March is very important for Twitter. The first tweet was done on Twitter today itself. 16 years ago on March 21, 2006, Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey wrote the first tweet saying “just setting up my twitter”. These few lines were the first tweet of the world. Today, remembering this informal occasion of the beginning of Twitter, we are putting many such interesting facts related to it in front of you, about which you hardly know.
Interesting Facts About Twitter 2023
- Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Bridge Stone, and Evan Williamson.
- People do not know much about the blue bird seen in the Twitter logo. His name is Larry and it was adopted by Twitter in 2012.
- Jack Dorsey’s first tweet was sold in an auction after 15 years for $2.5 million i.e. around Rs 18 crore.
- The first tweet on Twitter happened on March 21, 2006, but its formal launch was done on July 15, 2006.
- Twitter’s monthly users are around 244 million.
- Twitter used the hashtag for the first time in 2007, the credit for making it famous goes to Chris Messina.
- Twitter is earning tremendously today, but 3 years of its beginning were such when it did not even earn a lot.
- The first Twitter user to reach the mark of 10 million followers on Twitter was Lady Gaga.
- Twitter can be used in 35 languages.
- Narendra Modi’s Twitter account is at the forefront in terms of followers in India.
- In the year 2010, on the date of January 22, a tweet was also done from outside the earth. This was done by an astronaut from the International Space Station.
- Around 350 million tweets are done on Twitter in a day.
- Now we can tweet 280 words on Twitter, but before 15 November 2017 only 140 characters were allowed to tweet on Twitter.
- The number of regular logins on Twitter every month is 33 million.
- Twitter spread very fast in 2012, in that year almost 10 lakh accounts were created every day.
- Including all the accounts on Twitter, the total number becomes one billion 300 million accounts.
- Around 45% of accounts are inactive on Twitter.
- Anyone can check their first tweet by visiting first-tweets.com.
- Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg also uses rival Twitter, which he created in 2009.
- The first 1 billion tweets on Twitter were done in 3 years, 2 months and 1 day.
