10 Facts You Didn’t Know about Twitter

Feb 25, 2010 Posted on Feb 25, 2010 in twitter

In one way or another we are confronted with Twitter every day, but did you know the following interesting things about the popular social network?

According to Nielsen only about 7% of all Twitter users spend more than 60 minutes on the network per month.
These “heavy users” however, account for 79% of the overall time spent on Twitter.
Twitter broke even in 2009 solely by closing search deals with Google and Microsoft (Bing). They are yet to find a sustainable source of revenue.
61% of all exchanged tweets on the network are in English. Most other languages don’t even cover 1%.
February 2009 Twitter saw a 1,382% year-over-year growth.
72.5% of all Twitter accounts were created in the first half of 2009 (study).
62% of the audience access Twitter from work only, while 35% access it only from home (study).
Of the most active Twitter users updating more than 150 times/day, nearly all are bots.
93.6% of Twitter profiles have less than 100 followers and 92.4% follow less than 100 profiles (study).
There are 15,740 self-proclaimed Social Media Experts on Twitter.