Twitter 2012; Facts & Figures

Twitter 2012 Compiled by www.website-monitoring.com Facts & Figures Twitter asks "what's happening" and makes the answer spread across the globe to millions, immediately. Twitter has over 500 million registered users but just 140 million active users Twitter gets 300,000 new visitors every day 1 million 11 асcounts accounts are added to Twitter every day are created every second 40% 25% of Twitter accounts of Twitter acCounts have never sent have no followers a single tweet 15% of adult on the Internet used Twitter The average Twitter user has 27 followers Gender 45% 55% Male Female Age average 3% 17% <18 65+ 6% 55-64 13% 22% 18-24 45-54 17% 23% 25-34 35-44 Education level Children in household 13% Grad school 55% Has kids 45% No kids 38% College 49% No college Top 10 countries 5. 2.92% 10. 0.85% 2. 17.09% 9. 0.88% Canada Ireland United Kingdom Iran 7. 1.76% 6. 2.87% France India 1. 50.99% / United States 8. 1.43% Indonesia 3. 4.09% 4. 3.44% Australia Brazil Tweets 750 tweets On a busy day, Twitter sees about are shared on Twitter 175 million per second tweets There are more searches on Twitter each month than Yahoo and Bing - combined 4.1 billion bing 9.4 billion YAHOO! 24 billion vs. + 92% 18% of Twitter users say of Twitter users they would retweet "interesting" content tweet once or more a day Social marketing More than 57% 50% of all companies that use social of active Twitter users media for business follow companies, brands or products on social networks use Twitter 67% of US Twitter users are more likely to buy from brands they follow 79% of US Twitter users are more like to recommend brands they follow Top 10 Twitter users Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) 30,821,568 followers Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) 2. 29,664,188 followers Katy Perry (@katyperry) 3. 28,464,889 followers Rihanna (@rihanna) 4. 26,486,778 followers Barack Obama (@BarackObama) 5. ervoteo 21,576,647 followers Britney Spears (@britneyspears) 6. 21,522,788 followers Taylor Swift (@taylorswift 13) 7. 20,258,689 followers YouTube (@YoUTube) 18,879,586 followers Tube You 8. Shakira (@shakira) 9. 18,580,178 followers Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) 10. 16,504,528 followers Timeline Private accounts appear. There are 100 user accounts. An idea of group SMSing is introduced by Jack Dorsey during a brainstorming session at Odeo Inc. March 2006 The "twttr" codename is born, inspired by Flickr and the fact that American SMS codes are five characters. Twttr Beta is launched on Evan Williams birthday. 2006 March 31, 2006 Twttr.com is launched to the public. 2006 June 2006 A first version of the application is created and the first message is sent by Jack Dorsey: "just setting up my twttr". Obvious Corp is founded by Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone. It acquires Odeo. March 21, 2006 Twttr.com rebrands to Twitter.com. October 2006 140 character limit is introduced. Jack Dorsay says "One could change the world with one hundred and forty characters". February 2007 Twitter is created as a separate company. April 2007 During South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, Twitter has its tipping point and receives festival's Web Award. 2007 March 2007 Twitter receives 15 million dollars in Series B Permalinks and RSS feeds are created. funding. 500,000 tweets are posted quarterly. May 2008 December 2007 2008 Twitter starts blacklisting spammers. May 7, 2008 Twitter launches a status blog to communicate to users better about issues with the service. Twitter survives iPhone 3G Stevenote. Twitter partners with Summize to cover Apple news. May 28, 2008 June 9, 2008 Twitter acquires Summize. July 15, 2008 Evan Williams is replaced by Jack Dorsey on CEO post. October 2008 Twitter acquires Values of n. November 24, 2008 100 million tweets are posted per quarter. December 2008 Twitter receives 35 million dollars in Series C funding. Twitter receives 100 million dollars February 13, 2009 in Series D funding. September 25, 2009 2009 Twitter acquires Mixer Labs for 5.2 million dollar. December 23, 2009 2 billion tweets are posted per quarter. Twitter receives 5.17 million dollars December 31, 2009 in Series E funding. January 8, 2010 Twitter users were sending 50 million tweets per day. February 2010 The company recorded over 70,000 registered applications. March 2010 About 65 million tweets were posted each day. June 2010 2010 Twitter launched a redesigned site including a new logo. September 14, 2010 The company confirmed that the "New Twitter experience" had been rolled out to all users. That was about 140 million tweets posted daily. November 1, 2010 March 2011 2011 Twitter overhauled its website once more to feature the "Fly" design, which the service says is easier for new users to follow and promotes advertising. December 8, 2011 Twitter tested a new homepage and phased out the "Old Twitter. It was announced that Twitter and Yandex agreed to a partnership. April 5, 2011 February 21, 2012 2012 Twitter celebrated its sixth birthday while also announcing that it has 140 million users and sees 340 million tweets per day. Twitter has acquired a video clip company that has yet to launch. It is called Vine. March 21, 2012 October 5, 2012 A modified logo was unveiled through the company blog, removing the text to showcase the slightly redesigned bird as the sole symbol of Twitter. June 5, 2012 Data compiled for you by Website-Monitoring.com in October 2012 Data sources: http://beevolve.com http://prdaily.com http://quantcast.com http://slideshare.net/sallieburnett/infograph-2012-twitter-statistics http://socialmediaforlawfirms.com http://thesocialskinny.com http://twitaholic.com http://twitter.com http://wikipedia.org WEBSITE MONITORING.COM Twitter 2012 Compiled by www.website-monitoring.com Facts & Figures Twitter asks "what's happening" and makes the answer spread across the globe to millions, immediately. Twitter has over 500 million registered users but just 140 million active users Twitter gets 300,000 new visitors every day 1 million 11 асcounts accounts are added to Twitter every day are created every second 40% 25% of Twitter accounts of Twitter acCounts have never sent have no followers a single tweet 15% of adult on the Internet used Twitter The average Twitter user has 27 followers Gender 45% 55% Male Female Age average 3% 17% <18 65+ 6% 55-64 13% 22% 18-24 45-54 17% 23% 25-34 35-44 Education level Children in household 13% Grad school 55% Has kids 45% No kids 38% College 49% No college Top 10 countries 5. 2.92% 10. 0.85% 2. 17.09% 9. 0.88% Canada Ireland United Kingdom Iran 7. 1.76% 6. 2.87% France India 1. 50.99% / United States 8. 1.43% Indonesia 3. 4.09% 4. 3.44% Australia Brazil Tweets 750 tweets On a busy day, Twitter sees about are shared on Twitter 175 million per second tweets There are more searches on Twitter each month than Yahoo and Bing - combined 4.1 billion bing 9.4 billion YAHOO! 24 billion vs. + 92% 18% of Twitter users say of Twitter users they would retweet "interesting" content tweet once or more a day Social marketing More than 57% 50% of all companies that use social of active Twitter users media for business follow companies, brands or products on social networks use Twitter 67% of US Twitter users are more likely to buy from brands they follow 79% of US Twitter users are more like to recommend brands they follow Top 10 Twitter users Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) 30,821,568 followers Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) 2. 29,664,188 followers Katy Perry (@katyperry) 3. 28,464,889 followers Rihanna (@rihanna) 4. 26,486,778 followers Barack Obama (@BarackObama) 5. ervoteo 21,576,647 followers Britney Spears (@britneyspears) 6. 21,522,788 followers Taylor Swift (@taylorswift 13) 7. 20,258,689 followers YouTube (@YoUTube) 18,879,586 followers Tube You 8. Shakira (@shakira) 9. 18,580,178 followers Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) 10. 16,504,528 followers Timeline Private accounts appear. There are 100 user accounts. An idea of group SMSing is introduced by Jack Dorsey during a brainstorming session at Odeo Inc. March 2006 The "twttr" codename is born, inspired by Flickr and the fact that American SMS codes are five characters. Twttr Beta is launched on Evan Williams birthday. 2006 March 31, 2006 Twttr.com is launched to the public. 2006 June 2006 A first version of the application is created and the first message is sent by Jack Dorsey: "just setting up my twttr". Obvious Corp is founded by Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone. It acquires Odeo. March 21, 2006 Twttr.com rebrands to Twitter.com. October 2006 140 character limit is introduced. Jack Dorsay says "One could change the world with one hundred and forty characters". February 2007 Twitter is created as a separate company. April 2007 During South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, Twitter has its tipping point and receives festival's Web Award. 2007 March 2007 Twitter receives 15 million dollars in Series B Permalinks and RSS feeds are created. funding. 500,000 tweets are posted quarterly. May 2008 December 2007 2008 Twitter starts blacklisting spammers. May 7, 2008 Twitter launches a status blog to communicate to users better about issues with the service. Twitter survives iPhone 3G Stevenote. Twitter partners with Summize to cover Apple news. May 28, 2008 June 9, 2008 Twitter acquires Summize. July 15, 2008 Evan Williams is replaced by Jack Dorsey on CEO post. October 2008 Twitter acquires Values of n. November 24, 2008 100 million tweets are posted per quarter. December 2008 Twitter receives 35 million dollars in Series C funding. Twitter receives 100 million dollars February 13, 2009 in Series D funding. September 25, 2009 2009 Twitter acquires Mixer Labs for 5.2 million dollar. December 23, 2009 2 billion tweets are posted per quarter. Twitter receives 5.17 million dollars December 31, 2009 in Series E funding. January 8, 2010 Twitter users were sending 50 million tweets per day. February 2010 The company recorded over 70,000 registered applications. March 2010 About 65 million tweets were posted each day. June 2010 2010 Twitter launched a redesigned site including a new logo. September 14, 2010 The company confirmed that the "New Twitter experience" had been rolled out to all users. That was about 140 million tweets posted daily. November 1, 2010 March 2011 2011 Twitter overhauled its website once more to feature the "Fly" design, which the service says is easier for new users to follow and promotes advertising. December 8, 2011 Twitter tested a new homepage and phased out the "Old Twitter. It was announced that Twitter and Yandex agreed to a partnership. April 5, 2011 February 21, 2012 2012 Twitter celebrated its sixth birthday while also announcing that it has 140 million users and sees 340 million tweets per day. Twitter has acquired a video clip company that has yet to launch. It is called Vine. March 21, 2012 October 5, 2012 A modified logo was unveiled through the company blog, removing the text to showcase the slightly redesigned bird as the sole symbol of Twitter. June 5, 2012 Data compiled for you by Website-Monitoring.com in October 2012 Data sources: http://beevolve.com http://prdaily.com http://quantcast.com http://slideshare.net/sallieburnett/infograph-2012-twitter-statistics http://socialmediaforlawfirms.com http://thesocialskinny.com http://twitaholic.com http://twitter.com http://wikipedia.org WEBSITE MONITORING.COM