Top 10 Twitter facts you may not know

by: Ted Kucinsky, CBS Principal, Chief Creative Officer

I thought I would give just a quick snapshot of some interesting facts you might not know about this fast growing social media phenomenon.

1. Currently about 110 million users of Twitter’s services.

2. Twitter gets more than 300,000 new users every day.

3.  75%  of Twitter’s users use third-party apps for access not it’s web platform.

4. Twitter receives 180 million unique visits each month.

5. There are more than 600 million searches on Twitter every day.

6. Twitter started as a simple SMS-text service.

7. Over 60% of Twitter use is outside the U.S.

8. There are more than 50,000 third-party apps for Twitter.

9. The Library of Congress has access to all tweets on Twitter as a donation by Twitter for research and preservation.

10. Twitter is accessed by more than a third of users via their mobile phone.

Do you tweet?

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  1. I dont have twitter but i think its about celebtities and stuff like that…i want to try ang get an account but alwys forgets to, or i get second thoughts about it.
    Thats all i have to say.
    lol :-)

    Comment by Zendra — October 13, 2010 @ 10:41 pm

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