Twitter- 30 Amazing Stats & Facts

1. What does Twitter do:Twitter is a social networking platform on which registered twitter users post microblogs and react messages with tweets. Unregistered people can only read the microblog and posts.
2. Launch date: July 15, 2006
3. Founders: Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams
4. Headquarters: San Francisco, California United States
5. Number of Twitter employees: 4,600 as of September 2019
6. Subsidiaries of Twitter: Vine, Periscope and MoPub
7. Total number of Twitter account: 1.3 billion
8. Monthly Twitter active users: 330 million
9. Total tweets sent per day: 500 million tweets
10. Tweets sent per minute: 350,000 tweets
11. Twitter daily direct message limit: 1000
12. Average number of Twitter accounts you can follow each day: 400
13. Number of tweets limited per day: 2,400 tweets
14. Most followed person in Twitter in 2020: Barack Obama – 129 million followers
15. 1^st tweet in Twitter: Jack Dorsey tweet “just setting up my twttr” on 21 March 2006 is the 1^st tweet ever
16. Average time spent on Twitter: 3 minutes and 39 seconds
17. Total number of videos watched on Twitter everyday: 2 billion
18. Maximum number of followers can be handled by Twitter: 18 quintillion
19. Number of ads shown on Twitter everyday: 164 million ads
20. Mostly tweeted emoji: Tears of joy – 14.5 billion Tweets.
21. Percentage of tweets with Hashtags: 40 %
22. Total percentage of monthly active twitter users in USA: 21%
23. Number of world leaders active on twitter: 83%
24. Number of twitter users that are bots: 23 million
25. Most active tweeted time interval: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
26. Number B2B businesses use Twitter as a digital marketing tool: 67 percent
27. Twitter revenue: 3.45 Billion USD
28. Twitter acquisitions: twitter has acquired 43 companies and recently acquired is Ueno on Jan 2021
29. App similar to Twitter: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Snapchat and WeChat

+ One interesting news:

Twitter permanently suspends Gateway Pundit founder’s account.