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It is safe to say that every representative of generations Y and Z knows firsthand what Twitter is. We decided to talk about this social media platform today!
On average, about 6,000 tweets appear on Twitter every second, which means more than 350,000 tweets per minute, 500 million tweets per day, and about 200 billion tweets per year.
One of the ideas for the name was “FriendStalker.” Would it seem that Stalker is here? In English, the word “stalker” means a person who follows someone.
Noah Glass, one of the co-founders, searched the dictionary for words for the name of the site. A sudden call made his phone vibrating, and this led him to the word “twitch,” and the letters “TW” to the word “Twitter.”
Even the Pope has a Twitter account. In 2012, a spokesman said that Pope Benedict XVI would tweet in eight languages, although no tweets were posted on the first day.
Chris Messina is credited with the very first hashtag on Twitter. He first published the hashtag #barcamp (an international conference) in August 2007.
The Library of Congress used to archive all tweets. However, in 2017 it was announced that it would be more selective about what tweets to archive.
The famous blue bird in the logo is named Larry. People wondered for a long time exactly what its name is, and the name Larry was confirmed in 2012.
The most popular Twitter account is that of former US President Barack Obama. The second and third places are taken by Justin Bieber and Katy Perry, respectively.
The very first tweet was published on March 21, 2006. Jack Dorsey was the first person to post anything on Twitter. The tweet read, “just setting up my twttr.”
Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire, wrote the post that has collected the most retweets. He promised money to a hundred people who retweeted the post.
What do you think is the most amazing fact?