10 Fantastic Twitter Facts you did not know before

1. 10 Fantastic Twitter Facts you did not know before Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass and launched in July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users posting 340 million tweets a day in 2012. The service also handled 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, Twitter was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". As of May 2015, Twitter has more than 500 million users, out of which more than 332 million are active. Growth of Twitter over the years

2. Now here are some interesting facts about Twitter that you would have never heard before Here is Twitters First ever homepage – Ha ha ha ha ha Twitter was created on a playground. Founding team member Dom Sagolla says the group went on the top of a slide at a playground in South Park, a small neighborhood in San Francisco, and Jack Dorsey discussed an "idea so simple that you don't even think about it—you just write." Create Playlists to auto load the next video in a Topical Manner When Twitter started the company decided to automate the first tweet as an example. It said, "Just setting up my twttr." Co-founder Dorsey beat Biz Stone to be the first person to tweet leading by a minute—on March 22, 2006, at 2:20 p.m. PT. That tweet now has been re-tweeted over 60,000 times.

3.  MarQuis Trill @6BillionPeople is the account following the most on twitter with over 4.6 million tweets. His bio reads - Entertainment Mogul |Award Winning YouTube Artist/ DJ |Social Media Influencer | I represent, support everyone in this world with a dream. Join The Movement. Kate Perry, the singer, enjoys the distinction of having the highest number of twitter followers. (*if you need to get more twitter followers here is how) Who has tweeted the most? That honor belongs to @Yougakduan_00, a girl from Japan, who posted a mind-boggling 36,402,262 tweets before Twitter suspended her account, likely because of the excessive tweeting. Someone has recreated that account again but it seems fake. Did you know that the blue cute twitter bird has an official name. Yes, his name is Larry Bird. Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird is the inspiration behind the name. This was a choice made by one of the co-founders. The famous Twitter features like retweets, hashtags and replies were not created by Twitter. Rather after being used to exertion by the twitter

4. community the company adopted those features. Even the mobile app was created by a development company which Twitter latter bought. Co-Founder Dorsey is said to have been heart-broken when Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 for a billion dollars. Twitter responded by buying out Vine, the video-sharing app, for $30 million. Dorsey stopped using his Instagram account since that heart-breaking development. Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom (@Kevin) has tweeted just one time since August 2012 Twitter was considering creating a "worship" feature in the early days. If you worship someone then you kind of super follow them and each one of their tweets will be served to your timeline. This idea was dumped, and for a good reason.