10 Things You Might Not Know About Twitter – Facts

Twitter, one more version of the social networking package like Orkut and Facebook which is designed to aid people around the globe to interact with one another and keep in touch. It is of great patronage to the people because it has the facility of micro-blogging which allows one to post 140 words at a time in a form of a tweet. Now coming towards the Twitter in particular, it is actually a hodgepodge of email, instant messaging and sms messaging all compiled in a single package. There are certain features which are common with the Facebook and myriad other features which are unique to Twitter. Let us have a look on what are some of the features of the Twitter which is it offering to the social animal, we the human beings, to remain in touch with each other.
It offers the feature to send private messages to users instead of revealing that to everyone using Twitter.
It invites your cell phone to be the part of the Twitter as you can send and receive tweets (twitter messages) via your cell phone.
Do you have a better idea for developing any game for Twitter? If yes, than go ahead and use the API that allows third party developers to develop some magnetizing applications which may prove to be exciting for other Twitter users.
OK Readers !! fasten your seat belts because we are about to race your mind through some of very fascinating and appalling facts and figures pertaining to Twitter which you may have never heard of in your life, despite of using Twitter for a long time.

10. FIRST PERSON TO JOIN TWITTER

Hey! was it a He or She? What did he/she do on twitter after joining twitter?. Can’t guess !..never mind because I am going to divulge to you folks the first ever person to set foot, not on the moon but Twitter and he was JACK DORSEY(founder) and he was also the first one to send twitter message on his profile. Luck man he is, isn’t he ?. He was the first person to be the part of the world’s famous social organization nowadays.

9. INITIAL INCOME OF TWITTER AS A COMPANY

Twitter was founded in 2006 and as you all know that it is nowadays a very well-reputed and marvelous social networking package, so what do you think its initial revenue will be? Yeah I know that guessing such a behemoth amount will not be an easy task to do for you. Ok let me tell you this and the answer to this mystery is that for that first three years of its operations Twitter generated a total revenue of $1,000,000,000. Wait ! how about removing that ‘1’ before those zeroes. Yup here you go guys. You got it right and Twitter made not even a single penny during the first 3 years of its operations.

8. FREQUENCY OF TWEETS IN TWITTER

How many times can you possibly blink your eye in a second? Well to reflect something or some event as to occur very fast or rapidly we use the term “in a blink of an eye”. May be it is 5 times a second or to quote it more optimistically let us take it to be 7 times a second. But can you just imagine the number of Tweets per second. Nah ! it is not even near to your thinking as the average tweets per second are as many as 750 tweets per second. Well I guess we have got something to replace our old-used phrase and the new one should be “in a blink of a tweet”.

7. TWEETS THAT CONSTITUTE MOST OF THE OVERALL PERCENTAGE OF TWEETS

Man love to interact and finds for himself excuses to talk to others. The category of maximum number of tweets are conspicuous of this statement. What can it be? Any major event or something very ordinary to our lives. It is just “I am having lunch” and this tweet constitute over 40% of total tweets.

6. ORIGINAL NAME OF TWITTER

The name being used nowadays was not the original name for this social networking program. But it did resemble with the current name “TWITTER”. It was “TWTTR”. It was inspired by the fact the short codes being used in America are 5 characters.

5. THE FIRST DAY WHEN TWITTER WAS BEING RUN

Definitely, the first day of twitter was indeed linked to some special occasion of some special person of the organization. The Beta test version of Twitter was launched on the birthday of the CEO Even Williams.
4. MEN OR WOMEN

Men are more socializing than women. Women tend to talk to more in contrast to most men, although some men do talk a lot. Which segment of the society can it possibly be? Well guys happy or not they are the talkative ones. Yes, women constitute over 55% of the Twitter users where men lies in an area of 45%.

3. SOURCE OF TRAFFIC COMING TO TWITTER

You will be very astonished to know that not most of the traffic coming to twitter is from twitter.com rather it is from third party applications like TweetDeck, Twitterrific and Tweetie etc. These third party applications comprise over 75% of the incoming traffic to twitter.

2. IF TWITTER WERE A COUNTRY

Just imagine of the gigantic size of the Twitter organization with over more than 105,779,710 registered users. Statistics claim that if Twitter were a country then it would be 12th largest population country. It is amazing !

1. SOCIAL CLASS USING TWITTER

Rich people have got many other tasks to keep them riveted. They can go surfing, dining out most of the week days and do other expensive enjoyments to fulfill their social needs. But you will be amazed to learn that according to authentic sources, 30% of households of each family is more than $100,000.

10 Most-Used Twitter Abbreviations

Twitter has been recognized as one of the best and most used social networking sites out there, at least next to Facebook. It can be very amazing that despite of the limited 140 characters that can be added as a message status for everything you can think of, it has served to be one of the best channels for relaying information and messages to friends, businesses, and even other groups. Since the space is very limited, Twitter users are utilizing some abbreviations, which may be very confusing at first, but becomes of great benefit when mastered and exhausted.

1. TY or Thank You

This may be two words or even two letters only, but the essence of this message is more than enough to make a friend or any individual have their day the brightest. Imagine seeing a TY message in the morning because of times or moments spent with someone special the night before. Seeing these simple acts of gratitude goes a long way.

2. YT or YouTube

When words are not enough to express what you want to say, then mentioning YT to anyone will give them the prompt to open YouTube and search for a video that you may be referring on the tweet. It may be a creative way of forwarding them to see messages on video, being made personally. Just do not forget to include a link at least so that they would have an idea on what is being discussed.

3. BTW or By the Way

This is the perfect line for making an immediate change of topic or subject without being too pushy. It can be considered as very casual since the tone used is natural and common for most people. It could be better than using negation statements just to invite someone to have a topic or talk changed into something you personally prefer.

4. TMI or Too Much Information

Since Twitter has only 140 characters, it is already expected that someone will use URL shorteners to tweet a link page to another site. However, there are a few people that could share so much details in so small of a space. Information overload in social networking sites actually happen when the individual finds it hard to stop disclosing details, even if there is no need to have it shared to others. Leaks may even come out because some people may not be too careful.

5. FB or Facebook

Yes, Facebook. While most twitters think that Facebook has no space for Twitter, being competition and all, think again since FB has already shared its service for Twitter users who find it a fulfilling experience of sending their Twitter status together with new and better features and facilities over one of the best social networking sites out there. Oftentimes, being online on both platforms is considered cool and groovy by other users.

6. BRB or Be Right Back

This is best used by people who have a consistent momentum of tweeting much message status in a particular time of the day. With no warning that there may be disruptions on their end, telling them that you will be right back only opens the idea that removes the element of surprise when they see that you may be inactive for a couple of hours. Better yet, this is more applicable for those people who are busy or setting aside time for something so important like getting to the bathroom, or eating some chow, etc.

7. LMAO or Laughing My Ass Off

A more expressive version of laughing being used in the online world, LMAO or LMBO for a cleaner meaning, it suggest that the individual has found a joke, a video, or a message absolutely funny that he cannot just laugh about things sitting still in front of the computer. You may never know if they actually jumped of their sits and laughed hard until they dropped.

8. LOL or Laugh out Loud

A standard way of showing appreciation for a catchy phrase, a silly idea, or a funny joke, laugh out loud can be see both as an acronym and an emoticon with a double smile, or with the term LOL. Others may have it used as “Lots of Love” but on Twitter, it is used as a way of laughing hard.

9. EM or Email

Considered as part of the basic necessities in the online life, people who are checking and updating their info on Twitter even tries to avoid on yielding to the temptation of sharing too much. He has an option to send a message to the individual, invite him to check the email and all else should be presented according to the person’s need of disclosing info. Businesses and online marketers are even using social networking sites for campaigns and more.

10. RT or Retweet

Being used as one of the best ways to expand the number of people reading the next couple of messages from other people, retweeting is a courteous way of sharing details that had been taken from another source. It is a simple reminder that you recognized somebody’s tweet and that you are only using it to share to friends.

10 Differences among Google+, Facebook, and Twitter

When it comes to social networking sites, undeniably, Facebook and Twitter are the top favorites. Whether you are an adult or part of the crowd of the teens, it has caught so much attention and focus. We all know that most of the people, students or not, employee or not, are interested to check and update their status through their shout outs or upload their latest photos. But Google+ is coming and it has something to prove that could outweigh the existing social networking sites.

10. Personal Updates

Based on the research conducted among the ratio of users among Google+, Facebook, and Twitter, people normally make personal updates especially about feelings, happiness, and other emotions about certain events even without sharing it to the whole world. Twitter got this portion compared to Facebook; nonetheless, we don’t have any exact estimation if this would be the same response that would be gathered by Google+ since they are just in a series of testing and has not yet fully launched the system in full blast.

9. Document/ Data Integration

This is one of the advantages and differences very far from Twitter and almost unseen in Facebook. It lacks in these factors because Google+ has integrated this application to their Gmail account, or with their Google documents, whether it is on spreadsheet or in word files that can be shared with selected friends, which is mostly applicable in business.

8. More Opinions and Reactions

People in general loves to express themselves not just in verbal communication but in written also, which has been possible because of the choices that they have whether they would do it on Facebook or Google+. Definitely, Twitter would allow them to freely open themselves where they can give their reactions on something privately. Yet Google+ is offering another way to share it to that person and not share it publicly where that individual is part of the circles in his or her profile.

7. Comments/ Posts

Facebook and Twitter shows when specific comments or posts have been made where you could literally see the time and the exact date when things have happened. This is the setback that could be experienced of the future and current Google+ users although it has the ability to show when the post was made but the exact time display is still being fixed and worked out by Google+.

6. Enable Spamming

One of the things that we really hate the most is when we receive tagging of pictures and the latest spam messages on our wall. This is the common issue that Facebook has been trying to resolve which Google+ has resolved by sending notification to the user whether to accept it or not, which is a very convenient advantages and not having mistakes of clicking something to bring your online demise.

5. Latest Buzz

On Facebook and Twitter, you have to check online the latest news to be able to share the latest scoop and buzz in the world but with Google + you don’t have to go to another site to check what’s in and what’s hot; it will be shared directly to you based on your preferences and Sparks. It doesn’t matter if you want to know the latest happenings about entertainment, or sports and politics. You’ll get everything in one scoop.

4. Colorful Animation

To make your connection more interesting, especially with Circles, is to make it more contemporary and fun. This is something that you could not see on plain Twitter accounts and not even on Facebook, although there are changes being made to defeat the challenge that Google + is bringing. So far, so plain, so lame. Well at least the updates can scroll down and animate to fade.

3. Video Sharing

On Twitter, you could just post a link of a certain video from YouTube or from any other video websites. But with Google+ that limitation is lifted off due to the merger of YouTube and G+. Although you could also do that but there are still restrictions that must be observed especially in observing lewdness and other unethical or unlikely videos, which promote the opposite of the purpose of social networking sites.

2. Connections

This is the common denominator of the three big social networking sites online but they differ in functionality and features. In fact, in Twitter, it is limited on those who those who are added as followers and who are following. Although both can make highest security when and who to share important information. Nonetheless, Google+ can make specific persons appear depending on the user where things can be shared privately or for the group of 6 or more, or confined to certain individuals like families or best of friends.

1. Video Group Chat

This is something that would definitely kick off Twitter and especially Facebook. We are all aware that Twitter is more on personal updates and it’s like a personal diary from an individual, particularly the goings and progress. However, in Google+, you could have the chance to talk not just to one person but even to more than 8 persons on the cam at the same time. This is one that Facebook is trying to beat but it can’t be possible because they are not independently working as an entity of its own.

For you guys, what are the things that make the difference about these three? You could share your views and share it out loud. Nonetheless, they are united in one purpose and that is to connect people who are not yet connected and to build relationships and friendships in different ways.

Using hidden special smileys when Chatting

Online chats without smileys? That’s simply unbelievable! 

Many users actually even need more smileys than those 

that are available under ‘Emoticons’.Skype has some hidden

symbols in addition to the usual smileys that are available in

the program window. However, you cannot use these 

emotions unless you enter their codes directly. So, you should

enter one or more of the following codes during a chat session

to access the hidden smileys: bandit, drunk, finger, etc.

www.wackyb.co.nz/skype_smileys gives you a good overview 

of the available smileys and the different sequences to type 

using the keyboard.

Tweetsheet:How to make infographic of twitter activities

Tweetsheet:How to make infographic of twitter activities

If you want to do something new on twitter than tweetsheet is for
you.This is an amazing app which reads your twitter activities and 
show them in an interesting manner.It converts your activities in 
visual infographic.It reads your latest 3200 twits and make an analysis 
on the basis of it.





Tweetsheet includes some interesting details like top followers,your 
most retwited post,no. of followers,etc.The unique quality of this app is 
that,it can not read your activities without your permission.Its biggest 
drawback is that it does not provide any direct link to save your
infographic as an image.


How to get:
1.For this app go to the link given below:
http://vizify.com/tweetsheet
2.Now click on SEE YOURS button.
3.Than in the next window you have to login to authorize your account.
4.After this your infographic will be ready.

If you like the post than don't forget to comment and share..!!

Some unknown twitter hacks

Now days twitter is most popular among all the social networking

Sites.There are 100 million users of twitter and the whole world

loves it due to its simplicity.Most of us use twitter only for posting

text or sharing photos and links.But there are so many interesting

features of twitter with which we are not aware.You may know

about some hacks related to gmail,blogger,google,etc.In this post I

am going reveal about some hacks related  to twitter.

How to do twit of more than 140 characters

 1.Go to www.teitlonger.com and than sign in by your twitter account.

2.Now type your twit in the text box and than post it.

3.Your half twit will appear on twitter but there will be a link related to it.

4.By clicking on the link one can read your full twit.

How to know who has unfollowed you

1.Go to www.twunfollow.com  and than sign in by twitter account.

2.Now enter your e-mail id and than this service will tell you

information about who has unfollowed you.

Custom twitter backgrounds

Twitter has only 12 basic background,so you have no option

rather than choosing them.But it is possible to use and customize

backgrounds according to your choice.For doing this you have  to

go to www.tweetstyle.com.   

if you like the post than don't forget to comment and share!!

How to Post Flipped Text Status on Facebook or Twitter

If you want some creativity in your status updates you regularly do on Facebook or Twitter than you can use our text flipper gadget below to create some amazing text effects using flipped mirror power. Well the concept is simple you writer your text in the box above and than click on FLIP TEXT to flip it and create a mirror image from it. 

So you can see how status flipped works in the above image I write something and made that stuff totally flipped as its seen in the mirror so use Fliptext.org and create some awesome status updates.

So now just visit there website and write anything you wanted to set as your status and it will be automatically be flipped that’s it have fun and enjoy unlimited flipping.

Bye Bye Tweetmeme , Get tweet button from twitter

Twitter success was so huge that the websites which were built on twitter also became huge success. Tweetmeme was such a website which allowed users to put a retweet button on their website . This button allowed visitors of the blog to retweet directly from there and also to see how many time this stroy was tweeted.

Now twitter have announced official tweet button which users can directly put on their website or blog and thus can see the tweet counter directly from twitter. Previously it was fshare buttons from Facebook and now twitter is going for it.

The official announcement will literally kill tweetmeme and will shut down its future prospects. Come to think of it , if the big daddy is itself providing a retweet button , who will want a third party in between. In next month all the bloggers and webmasters will start removing the green button and will opt for blue one.

Here is link to get tweet button from twitter .. Official tweet button from twitter

Below is how tweetmeme started from zero and reached on a world rank of 300 which made everyone jealous.

Now i am not an astrologer but i have made some prediction for the next three months for them. I think most of you reading this post will agree on the graph below for tweetme.

Who knows next in the line are websites like twitpic

Easy To Add Image at your Twitter Status

Twitter is a very famous microblogging platform. In twitter you can share your updates called as tweets. You can also attach pictures , news and videos in the form of links in your tweet. Recently twitter announced that it will have its own picture hosting websitesoon. Today most of the twitter users got the new picture update with which you can attach pictures to your tweets. These pictures are hosted at the Photobucket site and available to the people only in twitter. These pictures also shows up in the twitter web search. Today we will guide you how to attach pictures to your tweets.

Step 1 : Sign-in to your twitter account .

Step 2: You will be greeted by the new picture add-on.

Step 3: Click What’s happening text box. You can see two new options such as attach location and Add picture.

Step 4: Click at that button and select a picture you need to upload.

Step 5: Add your status or just click Tweet button to attach the picture and send yourtweet.

The picture will be uploaded automatically to twitter server. When you tweet is tweeted successfully click your tweet and it shows up the picture in it.

Apart from the fact of sharing photos from its own hosting at Twitter, there are some limitations of this image service from Twitter. You can’t track your past photos or images in this new service from it. In this case I would recommend to use Twitpic to upload your images and share that via Twitter. The advantage of using Twitpic that you can track all your previous uploads here.