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’ […]
After seven years, the citizen-led Twitter account @sweden has stopped tweeting. The project, called Curators of Sweden, was initiated by the Swedish Institute and allowed a different curator every week to present the country through a “mix of skills, experiences and opinions”. While some curators sparked controversy, the account attracted around 150,000 followers and inspired […]
