Bird holding a twitter tag topic#3 – Twitter was invented at the top of a slide on a playground. (Yup sure was)..

#7 – The top Tweeter was a girl from Japan, posting 36,402,262 tweets before Twitter pulled the plug on her account.

#9 – The official name of the little blue colored Twitter bird is Larry. That’s right, Larry Bird.

#16 – Twitter was almost called Twitch. No kidding. “What are you doing?” “Twitching.” Geez it sounds terrible..

#17 – When the founding team was building the product, it called it “Jitter” at one point.

#81 – Twitter has 2,300 full time employees.

#87  – Tweets with hashtags receive 2x engagement than those without hashtags.

#107 – Khloe Kardashian pulls in $13,000 per sponsored tweet.

#140 – Twitter turned an idea on a playground slide into a company worth $30 billion.

I think I should maybe start my tweeting more vigorously, I obviously have some catching up to do…

Source http://www.cnbc.com/id/101511848


    4 replies to "140 Things You Don’t Know About Twitter"

    • Steve Troutman

      Hi Kim,

      How in the world does that other Kim make $13,000 per tweet?
      Ideas can come in the strangest places can’t they? $30 Billion is a chunk of change isn’t it? Nice blog. Good sense of humor.

      I’m new here only on week 3 but I’m getting into it. Love the training. Can’t wait to start making some money. Soon. Very soon.

      Take care,

      Steve

      P.S. Come by and visit my blog when you get a minute. Comment and share too. 🙂

    • James Hughes

      Hey Kim!
      What a brief and convincing post!
      I am glad you shared these statistics, making a great case for using twitter for online marketing. Thanks for the great post.
      Regards.

      • Melia

        Love the story, I stress about money because I want to have enough to be able to give my wife and future kids comforts and such, but at times forget about the time factor as wemltSome.iles I need to think more about time together than money spent together.Joe Cassandra recently posted..

    • Kim

      Hi guys

      Sorry for the late reply

      lol I was pretty staggered about those stats as well

      Good luck with the course both of you

      Cheers
      Kim
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