Twitter had 500 million daily tweets in August 2015, with an average length of 40-60 characters. The platform has grown from 5,000 tweets a day in 2007 to a million today, but 40% of tweets are “idle talk.” The most followed accounts in September 2015 were Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, and Barack Obama. Ellen DeGeneres’ selfie at the Academy Awards went viral in March 2014.
According to Twitter, about 500 million tweets were sent every day in August 2015. The average length of tweets is estimated to be between 40 and 60 characters, although Twitter allows a maximum of 140 characters. Assuming the average tweet contains six words, this would mean that around 3 billion words are sent on Twitter every day, equivalent to more than 5,300 copies of Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged. In just a few short years, Twitter’s onslaught has grown from 5,000 tweets a day in 2007 to a mind-blowing million tweets today. However, quantity is not always synonymous with quality. A San Antonio-based market research firm analyzed tweets in August 2009 and determined that 40 percent of the tweets sent were “idle talk,” followed by 38 percent that the firm labeled “conversational.
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The social network was initially conceived as “stat.us” and later changed to “Twttr” when the prototype hit the airwaves in March 2006.
Which Twitter accounts had the most followers in September 2015? Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and Barack Obama.
A star-studded selfie orchestrated by Ellen DeGeneres at the Academy Awards became a re-tweeting sensation in March 2014.
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