According to the Twitter blog, this week sees in their fifth birthday and it was this time in 2006 when a small team of people started working on a prototype of the microblogging service. It was in fact March 21, 2006, when Jack Dorsey (@jack) sent the first Tweet, and since then the site has continued to rocket to the Twitter we know today.
There have been some staggering figures in these first five years since the creation of Twitter, however I have included the stats from the original post which I think say it all.
The interesting thing from my point of view will be where Twitter goes next, and whether it can maintain this success or whether it has reached it's natural peak. With the recent introduction of various ways of monetising the service, with marketing options such as promoted tweets, and promoted trends, I do believe there are a few tricks left up the sleeve of the Twitter folk yet. I'd be interested to know what you think, and how you think Twitter will expand on the success of the first five years?
#tweets
3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet.
1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets.
50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago.
140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month.
177 million. Tweets sent on March 11, 2011.
456. Tweets per second (TPS) when Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 (a record at that time).
6,939. Current TPS record, set 4 seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day.
#accounts
572,000. Number of new accounts created on March 12, 2011.
460,000. Average number of new accounts per day over the last month.
182%. Increase in number of mobile users over the past year.
#employees
8. 29. 130. 350. 400. Number of Twitter employees in Jan 2008, Jan 2009, Jan 2010, Jan 2011 and today.
Pic - Twitter Birthday Cake
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Happy Fifth Birthday Twitter!
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Facebook Usage - Video infographic
I'm personally a very big fan of this style of video infographics, and so here is an excellent little snapshot of some incredible Facebook usage stats. Regardless of the fact that the video mainly focuses on US usage, I think this is still worth a watch.
Video - The World Is Obsessed With Facebook
My personal favorite stats from this are that apparently 57% of people talk more online, than they do in real life, and that 48% of young Americans said that they find out about what is happening in the news via Facebook.
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Thursday, 27 January 2011
Foursquare Infographic 2011
Foursquare have posted this interesting infographic showing some very interesting topline figures from last year, most impressive perhaps is their staggering 3400% growth. It does make me wonder however how the geo-location service will try to maintain this in 2011, especially with the increasing popularity of Facebook Places and the new announcement of Facebook Stories of the back of this.
Pic - Foursquare Infographic 2011
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
YouTube - Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute
The title pretty much sums this post up, that's right now there is over a day's worth of video uploaded to YouTube every minute... Over 35 Minutes according to the YouTube Blog! Now I could go into everything you could do in 35 hours, but I'm not going to... If you really do want this information check, out the original post here.
Pic - YouTube - Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute
Monday, 18 October 2010
Facebook - Ten things you need to know
Following the storming success of Facebook flick 'The Social Network' in its opening week, Experian have published the Top Ten facts you need to know about the social giant...
Pic - The Social Network Movie Poster
1. Facebook is the second most visited website in the UK after Google, accounting for 6.89% of all visits from UK Internet users in September.
2. In terms of internet pages viewed, Facebook is by far the biggest website in the UK. In total, 16.40% of all page views during September went to a Facebook page. Facebook now accounts for 1 in 6 page views in the UK, that’s twice the number of page views received by Google.
3. Facebook is the most popular social network in the UK, accounting for 55% of all visits to social networks. The nearest competitor is YouTube, which receives 16% of all visits to the category. Facebook is nearly 3.5 times bigger than YouTube in terms of monthly Internet visits in the UK.
Friday, 14 May 2010
Facebook - Facts You Probably Didn’t Know
Previously I posted a snapshot of the Google Universe by the way of a infographic courtesy of Pingdom. Well this morning I spotted this is nice one-stop-shop of things you probably didn't know about Facebook. Enjoy.
[Source: Online PhD Programs for MashableMashable
Friday, 26 February 2010
Google Facts and Figures - as presented by Pingdom
This is a really nice one-stop-shop of all you could wish to know about Google, posted by Nick Burcher (Post found here), I felt compelled to have this for my own record. The information covers not only stats about Google Search, but a timeline, people, Money, and other product such as YouTube, Android, Blogger and Gmail to name just a few.
Image originally posted & Created by Pingdom - Google facts and figures (massive infographic)
