Happy Birthday Twitter!

At the ripe old age of just 5, Twitter has had a remarkable impact on not only the social media landscape, but the way we communicate, share information and structure our sentences as we attempt to express ourselves in 140 characters or less.

Here are some facts about the evolution of Twitter…

• Created in March 2006.


• Launched in July 2006.


• It took 3 years, 2 months and 1 day for Twitter to hit 1 billion tweets, the number now posted in the course of a week.


• In just the first half of 2009, 72.5% of all Twitter user accounts were created.


• Today, there are 200 million registered user accounts, approx. 10 per cent of Internet users


• 85.3% of users post less than 1 update a day. 21% of accounts have no updates or profile information on them. In other words, they’re completely blank.


• Twitter profiles with less than 100 follows are 93.6% of all users.


• Only 5% of accounts have created 75% of all Twitter tweets.


• Order of most Twitter accounts in cities - 1. New York 2. Los Angeles 3. Toronto 4. San Francisco 5. Boston


• Female users just top male users at 53%.


• 15% of Twitter accounts are made for marketing and usually follow 2000 or more profiles, when .29% of users follow 2000 or more profiles.


• The company’s valuation is approximately $3.7 billion as of February 2011.

So what’s in store for Twitter over the next five years – will it still be around at the age of 10, will Jack Dorsey still own it and will you still be tweeting?

JM