Top 10 Crazy Twitter Facts

Twitter is one of the largest sites in the world with more 200 million members worldwide. In the last couple of years, the micro-blogging site has skyrocketed in popularity. The word “Tweet” is now synonymous with short updates sent by Twitter users.  Still there are many interesting facts about the service everyone should know.  Check out these fun  ones. 

Twitter users are sending 200 million tweets per day

25 billion tweets were sent on Twitter in 2010

There were 224 Tweets sent on July 15, 2006. Today, users send that many Tweets in less than a tenth of a second

10-11 pm is the most active time on Twitter, accounting for 4.8 percent of all tweets in an average day

At 104 years old, Ivy Bean was the oldest person to use Twitter

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey was the first person to send a tweet on his profile. His message was “just setting up my twttr”

The original name for Twitter was “TWTTR”. It was inspired by the fact the short codes being used in America are 5 characters

Beyonce’s pregnancy announcement at the MTV VMA’s sparked 8,868 Tweets per second

The first unassisted off-Earth Twitter message was posted from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut T. J. Creamer on January 22, 2010

It took Twitter more than 16 months to reach 600,000 registered accounts