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Twitter Celebrated 10 Years Of ... Being Twitter!

Check out 10 fun facts about Twitter.

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Twitter Celebrated 10 Years Of ... Being Twitter!

It has been a decade since Twitter began from its roots, over the years millions of users have chosen to use Twitter for both social and professional use and have sent out millions of tweets.

It is crazy for some to remember a world without technology and, more specifically, without Twitter and its 140-character limit for tweets. It is strange to think that the words “tweet,” “Twitter,” “follow,” “retweet,” and many other phrased weren’t in existence before 2006. So, in light of Twitter celebrating its 10 year anniversary, I decided to compile a list of 10 fun facts about Twitter!

1. Around 347,000 tweets are sent out on Twitter every single minute.

2. Twitter co-founder Noah Glass got ousted from the company around the start of Twitter.

3. You can find your first ever tweet at FirstTweets.com!

4. The real definition of the word Twitter is “a short burst of inconsequential information to utter in chirps.”

5. Katy Perry has the most Twitter followers – around 85 million of them.

6. The Twitter bird has a name. His name is Larry and he was named after sports legend Larry Bird.

7. The story behind Twitter is being turned into a TV show.

8. Twitter was almost called “Friendstalker” (kind of ironic, haha).

9. Ending a tweet with an empty hashtag is called a hangtag.

10. The 140-character limit almost got changed to 1000, but founder Jack Dorsey said that Twitter would lose its feeling if it was changed.

Twitter has had its ups and downs, and good and bad moments, but cheers to another decade of Twitter … well, just being Twitter!

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