8 Never Known Facts About Twitter Tweet

It didn’t took long for Twitter, the microblogging service to win hearts of half a billion people around the world. The ‘140 character limited’ social network has even shown its power by fuelling revolutions in some countries.   According to the statistics, the users tweet more than 500million messages a day, whose characteristics define the ‘happenings’ around the world.


But these are just official statistics. Recently, a social media firm Beevolve released the detailed report on “An Exhaustive Study of Twitter Users Across the World,” which shed light to some never known, surprising factors about the site.


Here are 8 of them, compiled by Huffington Post.


#8 Twitterers love "love"

The most frequently used word in the bios of users’ bios is “love.” “Like” and “Life,” the similar words follow the most used word in numbers.


#7 A full 25 Percent of Users Have Never Tweeted

According to Twitter, the best thing is "You don’t have to build a web page to surf the web, and you don’t have to tweet to enjoy Twitter.” It seems most of the users are following these words as out of the total members, a quarter never tweeted. They use Twitter to get news and enjoy the conversations, without taking part in them.


#6 Twitter Users Want You To Know What They Think, Not Where They Are

Even though Twitter allows you to enable geo-location for your tweets, only 10.3 percent of users have activated it. This essentially signifies one thing- they want the world to know what they think, unlike other social networking users who keeps themselves tagged to locations, every time they log in.


#5 There Are More Women Than Men On Twitter

The notion about Twitter being a boy’s club is no more true. Women slightly outnumber men in the microblogging site as a whole, except in some countries. In India, more than 80 percent of Twitter users are males.


#4 You Can Still Get A Ton Of Followers With A Protected Account

According to the statistics, 11.8 percent of users have private accounts- which means you need the approval from persons to follow them. But according to Beevolve, this doesn’t affect your fan base. The report shows example of an Indonesian tweeter @WIDIKIDIW whose account is set to private, yet had amassed 515,290 followers at one time.


#3 Purple Is The Most Popular Background Color Among Female Users While Blackish Grey Among Men


The gender itself shows the choices.



#2 The Most Prolific Tweeter On Twitter is @InternetRadio, With More Than 2 Million Tweets


The InternetRadio tweets to followers about what the radio stations are playing, as they play them. Lot of tweets go out in an hour, no wonder why these internet radios are a big hit!



#1 It's Shocking: The Average Number Of Tweets Someone Sends Is Directly Related To The Average Number Of Followers They Have

After examining 36 million Twitter profiles and 28 billion tweets, Beevolve got an interesting find- the number of tweets are directly relate to the number of followers. And the reason behind this phenomenon is, unknown!


Bonus: The Least Popular Tweeter With A Verified Account Is @SevenFootWave, Who Earned Just Four Followers In Three Years

The surprise is @SevenFootWave is the official twitter account of the same titled rock band.

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