--- title: "25 Kickass and Interesting Facts About Twitter" url: https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-kickass-interesting-facts-twitter/ date: 2014-02-20 modified: 2016-04-25 lang: en author: "Admin" description: "Here are 25 Kickass and Interesting Facts About Twitter. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Twitter 1. Conan O'Brien follows only one person on Twitter, who is a randomly chosen fan named..." categories: - "Entertainment" - "Fact List" - "Internet & Computers" tags: - "Internet & Computers" - "Social Media" - "Twitter" image: https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Twitter.jpg word_count: 669 --- # 25 Kickass and Interesting Facts About Twitter Here are 25 Kickass and Interesting Facts About Twitter. ## 1-5 Interesting Facts About Twitter [![Conan O](https://kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ConanOBrien_thumb.jpg)](https://kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ConanOBrien.jpg) 1. Conan O'Brien follows only one person on Twitter, who is a randomly chosen fan named Sarah Killen. Since being followed in 2010 by Conan O’Brien, she has gone from 3 to 138k followers - [Source](http://www.popeater.com/2010/03/08/sarah-killen-conan-obrien-twitter/) 2. North Korea currently follows only 3 accounts on Twitter. Two are propaganda accounts and the other one is a 25 year old American from Texas and nobody knows why they are following him. - [Source](http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/jan/13/jimmy-dushku-north-korea-twitter) 3. Jello monitors the ratio of smiley to frowny emoticons on Twitter and releases coupons whenever the Twittersphere is unhappy - [Source](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/03/mood-reading-billboard-jell-o_n_917475.html#s321731&title=JellO) 4. A Dutch porn actress, Bobbi Eden, promised all her twitter followers with oral sex if the Dutch soccer team would win the World Cup of 2010. They lost the final with 0-1. - [Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbi_Eden) 5. On September 26, 2011, musician Mikey Welsh posted on Twitter, "Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today," shortly followed by, "Correction - the weekend after next". Welsh had been found dead in a hotel room in Chicago, from a suspected drug overdose leading to a heart attack. – [Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikey_Welsh#Death) ## 6-10 Interesting Facts About Twitter [![Realtime WWII-Interesting Facts About Twitter](https://kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/RealtimeWWII_thumb.jpg)](https://kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/RealtimeWWII.jpg) 6. There's a twitter account that narrates the events of World War II in real time. - [Source](https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII) 7. “Friendstalker" was one of the early names considered for twitter. - [Source](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/digital-culture/social-web/the-history-of-twitter-140-characters-at-a-time/article573416/) 8. 50 Cent made $8.7 million in a week in 2011 using Twitter to convince people to invest in a failing penny stock. - [Source](http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/807327) 9. During the 2011 Virginia Earthquake, some people in New England read about the quake on Facebook and Twitter 15-30 seconds before they felt it. - [Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_earthquake#Internet_activity_and_social_media) 10. The official twitter account for Sweden is run by a different citizen every week. – [Source](https://twitter.com/#!/sweden/) ## 11-15 Interesting Facts About Twitter [![Hugo Chavez-Interesting Facts About Twitter](https://kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/HugoChavez_thumb.jpg)](https://kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/HugoChavez.jpg) 11. In 2012, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez rewarded his 3,000,000th Twitter follower with a new home, who was a 19-year old Venezuelan girl. - [Source](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/02/hugo-chavez-rewards-twitter-follower) 12. NATO and the Taliban have argued multiple times on twitter. One of these interactions was on the question of who has been causing harm to innocent Afghans. - [Source](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/14/taliban-nato-isaf-twitter) 13. Twitter, Wikipedia, and AOL IM all crashed at 03:15 p.m. on the day Michael Jackson died. - [Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Michael_Jackson) 14. When the Westboro Baptist Church announced via Twitter that they would protest Steve Job's funeral, they in fact tweeted it from an iPhone. - [Source](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/under-god/post/westboro-baptist-church-uses-iphone-to-announce-steve-jobs-funeral-protest/2011/10/06/gIQAJqBjPL_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost) 15. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was the first person to announce the death of Osama bin laden via Twitter. – [Source](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden#section_4) ## 16-20 Interesting Facts About Twitter [![Library of Congress-Interesting Facts About Twitter](https://kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/LibraryofCongress_thumb.jpg)](https://kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/LibraryofCongress.jpg) 16. The American Library of Congress archives everything ever posted on Twitter by everyone, since its creation in 2008 - [Source](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2010/0416/Twitter-hits-Library-of-Congress-Would-Founding-Fathers-tweet) 17. North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il's Grandson (Kim Han-sol) had a twitter, Facebook, and youtube account on which he expressed sympathy towards the North Korean people. - [Source](http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2011/10/03/33/0401000000AEN20111003004100315F.HTML) 18. Twitter's founder decided on it's name because a twitter "is defined as 'a short burst of inconsequential information'... which is exactly what the product was" - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Creation_and_initial_reaction) 19. Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Taliban all have twitter accounts that are regularly updated. - [Source](http://theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/01/most-infamous-terrorists-twitter/46852/) 20. Microsoft has a twitter account for quick Xbox support. It holds the Guinness World Record of the Most Responsive Brand on Twitter due to its quick responsiveness to complaints. – [Source](https://twitter.com/#!/XboxSupport) ## 21-25 Interesting Facts About Twitter [![Twitter Bird-Interesting Facts About Twitter](https://kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/TwitterBird_thumb.jpg)](https://kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/TwitterBird.jpg) 21. The bird on the Twitter logo is named Larry the Bird, named after Larry Bird of the NBA's Boston Celtics fame- [Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#.22Larry_the_Bird.22_Logo) 22. Google and Twitter have been used to monitor disease epidemics - [Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infoveillance) 23. In 2011, Iceland used Facebook, Twitter, and web comments to crowd source its constitution - [Source](http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=iceland-crowdsources-its-constituti-12-11-15) 24. Facebook tried to buy twitter in 2008 - [Source](http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/06/23/twitter-facebook-friends/) 25. Jim Carrey has over five million twitter followers, yet he follows just a single person: his daughter, Jane. - [Source](http://twitter.com/#!/JimCarrey/following)