Here are 25 Kickass and Interesting Facts About Twitter.
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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
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
3. Jello monitors the ratio of smiley to frowny emoticons on Twitter and releases coupons whenever the Twittersphere is unhappy – Source
4. A Dutch p*rn 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
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
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6. There’s a twitter account that narrates the events of World War II in real time. – Source
7. “Friendstalker” was one of the early names considered for twitter. – Source
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
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
10. The official twitter account for Sweden is run by a different citizen every week. – Source
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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
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
13. Twitter, Wikipedia, and AOL IM all crashed at 03:15 p.m. on the day Michael Jackson died. – Source
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
15. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was the first person to announce the death of Osama bin laden via Twitter. – Source
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16. The American Library of Congress archives everything ever posted on Twitter by everyone, since its creation in 2008 – Source
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
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
19. Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Taliban all have twitter accounts that are regularly updated. – Source
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
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21. The bird on the Twitter logo is named Larry the Bird, named after Larry Bird of the NBA’s Boston Celtics fame- Source
22. Google and Twitter have been used to monitor disease epidemics – Source
23. In 2011, Iceland used Facebook, Twitter, and web comments to crowd source its constitution – Source
24. Facebook tried to buy twitter in 2008 – Source
25. Jim Carrey has over five million twitter followers, yet he follows just a single person: his daughter, Jane. – Source