Just How Big Is Twitter In 2012?

ΤΥΙTTΕR 2012 The Freshest Sstatistics on the King of Microblogging Services COUNTRIES Brazil 33.3м over 465 TOP. Зарan 29.9M United States 107.7 MILLION Japan 29.9 MILLION United States million ACCOUNTS U.K. 107.7M 23.8M Brazil 33.3 MILLION Indonesia 19.5M 175 million TWEETS A DAY India 13M Spain 8M Mexico Philippines 8M Canada 7M 11M TOP 5 MOMENTS TOP 5 MOST POPULAR THE BUSIEST TIMES IN TWITTER HISTORY TWITTER USERS BY NUMBER OF FOLLOWERS "Castle in the Sky" TV Screening 25,088 TWEETS PER SECOND LADY GAGA@ladygaga 19,341,413 Superbowl XLVI Last Minutes 10,245 TWÉETS PER SECOND JUSTIN BIEBER@justinbieber 17,500,298 Madonna at the Superbowl 10,245 TWÉETS PER SECOND KATY PERRY @katyperry 15,148,941 Tim Tebow's Win SHAKIRA@shakira 9,420 TWEETS PER SECOND 14,085,300 Beyonce at the VMAS 8,869 TWEETS PER SECOND RIHANNA@rihanna 13,596,061 A BRIEF HISTORY OF TWITTER July 2006 Nov 2008 Dec 2010 BIRTH July 2007 YES WE CAN 2009 REVALUED 2011 VALUED GROWTH USERS S TWEETS Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone & Evan Williams launch "Twttr" (renamed in Fall '06 as "Twitter"). President-elect Barack Obama thanks his Twitter followers. Valued at $3.7 billion, Twitter raises $200 million. Valued at $5 million, Twitter raises $1million. Two billion tweets posted. Twitter raises $35 million. 100 million active users by September. Twitter delivers 33 billion tweets per day. TWITTER'S FOUNDERS TWITTER UNDER FIRE FEBRUARY 9, 2012 Brazil's Attorney General sues Twitter for aooounts that warm oitizens of polioe speed traps and roadblooks beoause they "direotly harm the life, safety, and property of people in general". FEBRUARY 16, 2012 Twitter admits to oopying users' address books from smartphones and storing the information on its servers for as long as 18 months. Jaok Dorsey @jack Blz Stone @biz Evan WIlIllams @eu HOW a PEOPLE USE IT WHAT MAKES YOU RETWEET? HOW DO YOU ACCESS IT? Interesting content 10% Personal Connection 26% Twitter Client * 92% 32% Humor Mobile Application O21% 16% Incentive 84% 64% Twitter.com (web) 66% Retweet Requests Celebrity Status * Popular Twitter Clients include TweetDeck, HootSuite and Seesmic. HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO FOLLOW? 69% Suggested by Friends 47% 44% 31% Online Search Suggested by Twitter Promotions WATCHING TWITTER GROW $259 million Twitter's projected Advertising Revenue in 2012 11 Twitter accounts created every second 1 Million Accounts currently added to Twitter every day $540 million Twitter's projected Advertising Revenue by 2014 IL infographic LABS Sources: http://twitaholic.com • http://www.mediabistro.com http://thesocialskinny.com/100-more-social-media-statistics-for-2012 http://www.slideshare.net/sallieburnett/infograph-2012-twitter-statistics http://mashable.com/2012/02/06/tweets-per-second-records-twitter/ *Method of Access data from survey results by lab42.com: http://blog.lab42.com/whats-trending-twitter/