15. THERE ARE OVER 100,000 TWITTER APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

Twitter’s eco-system is largely based on the number of Apps available. It’s also noteworthy that over 75% of all traffic comes from 3rd party apps and not Twitter.com itself. Here are more stats.

14. OSAMA BIN LADEN’S DEATH CAUSED THE HIGHEST SUSTAINED TWEET RATE

During and after president Obama’s speech about the death of Osama Bin Laden, Twitter saw the highest rate of published tweets over a longer period of time said Twitter. Between 10:45p.m. and 12:30a.m. 12:30p.m. there were over 3,440 tweets sent per second. This means about 22 million tweets in less than 2 hours.

13. TWITTER ADS 5 NEW USERS EVERY SECOND

Twitter’s latest growth figures show that every day, they are adding around 460, 000 users. If we break that down it gives us about 5 new users every second, or 320 every minute. Quite impressive if you ask me, more juicy stats here.

12. LADY GAGA WAS THE FIRST TWITTER USER TO HIT 10,000,000 FOLLOWERS

As of this week Lady Gaga is the very first user to enter the 10 million follower club. Closely followed by Justin Bieber, who is thought to reach the 10 million mark in the next few weeks.

11. MOST POPULAR WORD IN ENGLISH DICTIONARY 2009

The Global Language Monitor, which tracks language trends, has once again compiled and released its yearly list of the most popular words and phrases within the English language. In 2008, the #1 most popular word was “change” (referring to the mantra of the top name of 2008, Barack Obama). However, Obama has been supplanted this year by the 140 character sensation that is Twitter.

10. FIRST PERSON TO JOIN TWITTER

Hey! was it a He or She? What did he/she do on twitter after joining twitter?. Can’t guess !..never mind because I am going to divulge to you folks the first ever person to set foot, not on the moon but Twitter and he was JACK DORSEY(founder) and he was also the first one to send twitter message on his profile. Luck man he is, isn’t he ?. He was the first person to be the part of the world’s famous social organization nowadays.

9. INITIAL INCOME OF TWITTER AS A COMPANY

Twitter was founded in 2006 and as you all know that it is nowadays a very well-reputed and marvelous social networking package, so what do you think its initial revenue will be? Yeah I know that guessing such a behemoth amount will not be an easy task to do for you. Ok let me tell you this and the answer to this mystery is that for that first three years of its operations Twitter generated a total revenue of $1,000,000,000. Wait ! how about removing that ‘1’ before those zeroes. Yup here you go guys. You got it right and Twitter made not even a single penny during the first 3 years of its operations.

8. FREQUENCY OF TWEETS IN TWITTER

How many times can you possibly blink your eye in a second? Well to reflect something or some event as to occur very fast or rapidly we use the term “in a blink of an eye”. May be it is 5 times a second or to quote it more optimistically let us take it to be 7 times a second. But can you just imagine the number of Tweets per second. Nah ! it is not even near to your thinking as the average tweets per second are as many as 750 tweets per second. Well I guess we have got something to replace our old-used phrase and the new one should be “in a blink of a tweet”.

7. TWEETS THAT CONSTITUTE MOST OF THE OVERALL PERCENTAGE OF TWEETS

Man love to interact and finds for himself excuses to talk to others. The category of maximum number of tweets are conspicuous of this statement. What can it be? Any major event or something very ordinary to our lives. It is just “I am having lunch” and this tweet constitute over 40% of total tweets.

6. ORIGINAL NAME OF TWITTER

The name being used nowadays was not the original name for this social networking program. But it did resemble with the current name “TWITTER”. It was “TWTTR”. It was inspired by the fact the short codes being used in America are 5 characters.

5. THE FIRST DAY WHEN TWITTER WAS BEING RUN

Definitely, the first day of twitter was indeed linked to some special occasion of some special person of the organization. The Beta test version of Twitter was launched on the birthday of the CEO Even Williams.
4. MEN OR WOMEN

Men are more socializing than women. Women tend to talk to more in contrast to most men, although some men do talk a lot. Which segment of the society can it possibly be? Well guys happy or not they are the talkative ones. Yes, women constitute over 55% of the Twitter users where men lies in an area of 45%.

3. SOURCE OF TRAFFIC COMING TO TWITTER

You will be very astonished to know that not most of the traffic coming to twitter is from twitter.com rather it is from third party applications like TweetDeck, Twitterrific and Tweetie etc. These third party applications comprise over 75% of the incoming traffic to twitter.

2. IF TWITTER WERE A COUNTRY

Just imagine of the gigantic size of the Twitter organization with over more than 105,779,710 registered users. Statistics claim that if Twitter were a country then it would be 12th largest population country. It is amazing !

1. SOCIAL CLASS USING TWITTER

Rich people have got many other tasks to keep them riveted. They can go surfing, dining out most of the week days and do other expensive enjoyments to fulfill their social needs. But you will be amazed to learn that according to authentic sources, 30% of households of each family is more than $100,000.