Five Facts about #Twitter that You Didn’t Know!

  1. Twitter was actually created on a children’s playground. Founding team member Dom Sagolla says the group went on the top of a slide at a playground in South Park in San Francisco and Jack Dorsey discussed an “idea so simple that you don’t even think about it—you just write.”
  2. The first ever Tweet was “Just setting up my twttr.” Co-founder Dorsey sent the first tweet, on March 21, 2006.
  3. Who has tweeted the most ever? This record belongs to member @Yougakduan_00, a girl from Japan, who posted a staggering and unblievable 36,402,262 tweets before Twitter suspended her account.
  4. The official name of Twitter’s bird is Larry.
  5. Twitter didn’t create #retweets, #replies nor #hashtags, they were created by users and developers in its ecosystem.

 

 

 

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