Twitter was originally created for Odeo, a podcasting company.
In 2006, Jack Dorsey, one of the co-founders and former CEO of Twitter, came up with an idea of an SMS service to communicate with a small group.
The first tweet was by Jack Dorsey, it said “just setting up my twittr”.
In 2006, Twitter was called twittr before because the domain name was already owned by another business. The name was changed from twittr to Twitter after the domain was purchased by the crew.
On August 3, 2013, Japan set the highest record for most tweets sent amounting to 143,199 tweets per second during a television screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky.
Twitter is considered the number 1 platform for discovery.
People spend 26% more time on Twitter viewing ads than on other leading platforms.
Twitter is considered the largest microblogging platform.
A tweet has a maximum capacity of 280 characters.
In July 2022, Twitter launched a lawsuit case against the government of India after they were ordered to remove multiple accounts and tweets that violated the country’s law.
Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion through debt financing.
Twitter's logo changed to an X on July 24th, 2023. The concept was clarified in October 2022, when Elon Musk tweeted that purchasing Twitter was "an accelerant to creating X, the everything app".
How much does Twitter charge for the blue check mark?
It now costs $7.99 a month to be verified on Twitter. Elon Musk brought down this judgment with the reasoning that there are a lot of bots and fake accounts on Twitter. He believes that by charging this amount of money, this would decrease the number of bots and fake accounts on the platform.
Twitter was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange last November 08, 2022. When Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, it changed the company from a publicly traded company to a privately owned company.
Data about Twitter’s financials on Google Finance was also removed.
Twitter makes money through ads. Their revenue can be divided into two segments: Advertisements, and Data Licensing & Others.
Twitter creates targeted ads for business profiles using advertising formats. This includes: Promoted Ads, Twitter Amplify, Follower Ads, and Twitter Takeover.
Aside from advertising, Twitter also earns from other segments such as data licensing. In 2021, Twitter earned $571.79 million from data licensing and other revenue.
How many employees did Elon Musk fire from Twitter?
Elon Musk fired more than half of Twitter’s employees and the rest resigned from the company. There were only 2,750 employees left on Twitter from 7,500 employees when Elon Musk took over the company.
Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire and art collector, owns the most retweeted tweet of all time. His tweet has been retweeted 3.7 million times.
Rank
Posted by
Date Posted
Context
Number of Retweets
1
Yusaku Maezawa @yousuck2020
Jan 5, 2019
Yusaku Maezawa promised to award a prize of 100 million yen to a random winner among people who retweeted his tweet.
3.7 million
2
Carter Wilkerson @carterjwm
Apr 6, 2017
Wendy's promised Carter to give a year of free chicken nuggets if his tweet would be retweeted 18 million times. It didn't even take that much retweets when Wendy's decided to fulfill that promise.
3 million
3
Yusaku Maezawa @yousuck2020
Dec 31, 2019
Yusaku Maezawa promised again to award a prize of 1 billion yen to a random winner among people who retweeted his tweet.
2.9 million
4
Ellen DeGeneres @TheEllenShow
Mar 2, 2014
Star-studded selfie with various actors who attended the 85th Academy Awards.
2.8 million
5
Louis Tomlinson @Louis_Tomlinson
Oct 2, 2011
Louis Tomlinson tweeting to Harry Styles telling him he is always in his heart.
2.6 million
6
Chadwick Boseman @chadwickboseman
Aug 29, 2020
Chadwick passing away.
1.9 million
7
Hikakin @hikakin
Dec 18, 2021
Giveaways tweet with 103 iphone 13s to people who would retweet his tweet.
1.6 million
8
Jungkook @BTS_twt
May 3, 2020
Video clip of Jungkook singing.
1.5 million
9
El Rubius @Rubiu5
Aug 21, 2016
Drawing of prizes for people who retweeted his tweet "LIMONADA"
1.4 million
10
Barack Obama @BarackObama
Aug 12, 2017
Barack Obama quoting a passage from Nelson Mandela's autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom".
Twitter is available in almost every country. However, there are countries where the government mandated to block Twitter either temporarily or permanently.
The United States has the most number of Twitter users with 76.9 million people using the app. Coming in second place is Japan with 58.9 million Twitter users.
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