Interesting facts about twitter

Twitter was created mainly to stay connected with a group of friends through SMS channels. It was never meant to be used on the internet much and that was the reason for its 140 character limit.

Twitter was mostly funded through venture capitalists who funded most of the $ 50 million, Twitter is still operating on.

Twitter was founded in 2006 and for the first 3 years as a company Twitter made a total of ‘zero’ dollars in revenues.

Twitter is expected to make 1.54 billion dollars by the end of 2013 with over a billion users.

Twitter has over over 65 millions tweets everyday and that averages to 750 tweets per second.

There are over 70,000 registered applications for Twitter created mostly by people who have no connection to Twitter.