7 Stunning Facts About Twitter [Twitter Facts]

Twitter has become a big buzz on the web over the last couple of years and here are some facts about it:

1. Twitter was mostly funded through venture capitalists who funded most of the $ 50 million, Twitter is still operating on.

2.Twitter was founded in 2006 and for the first 3 years as a company Twitter made a total of ‘zero’ dollars in revenues.

3. Twitter is expected to make 1.54 billion dollars by the end of 2013 with over a billion users.

4. Twitter has over over 65 millions tweets everyday and that averages to 1000 tweets per second.

5. There are over 70,000 registered applications for Twitter created mostly by people who have no connection to Twitter.

6.The first tweet on Twitter was by Jack Dorsey and the tweet was “Just setting up my twttr” on 21st March 2006.


7.Twitter handles 24 billion search queries a month. Yahoo handles 9.4 billion search queries and Bing handles about 4.1 search queries. This means Twitter is the ranked #2 search engine behind Google which handles about 88 billion search queries.

This post was written by: Sridhar

Sridhar is a professional blogger, social media enthusiast and a huge twitter addict. Follow him on Twitter