24 Interesting Facts About Twitter

Conan O'Brien-Interesting Facts About Twitter
1. Conan O’Brien follows only one person on Twitter, who is a randomly chosen fan named Sarah Killen. Since being followed in 2010 by Conan O’Brien, she has gone from 3 to 138k followers.
2. North Korea currently follows only 3 accounts on Twitter. Two are propaganda accounts and the other one is a 25 year old American from Texas and nobody knows why they are following him.
3. Jello monitors the ratio of smiley to frowny emoticons on Twitter and releases coupons whenever the Twittersphere is unhappy.
4. On September 26, 2011, musician Mikey Welsh posted on Twitter, “Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today,” shortly followed by, “Correction – the weekend after next”. Welsh had been found dead in a hotel room in Chicago, from a suspected drug overdose leading to a heart attack.
5. There’s a twitter account that narrates the events of World War II in real time.
6. “Friendstalker” was one of the early names considered for twitter.
7. 50 Cent made $8.7 million in a week in 2011 using Twitter to convince people to invest in a failing penny stock. 
8. During the 2011 Virginia Earthquake, some people in New England read about the quake on Facebook and Twitter 15-30 seconds before they felt it.
9. The official twitter account for Sweden is run by a different citizen every week.
10. In 2012, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez rewarded his 3,000,000th Twitter follower with a new home, who was a 19-year old Venezuelan girl.
11. NATO and the Taliban have argued multiple times on twitter. One of these interactions was on the question of who has been causing harm to innocent Afghans.
12. Twitter, Wikipedia, and AOL IM all crashed at 03:15 p.m. on the day Michael Jackson died.
13. When the Westboro Baptist Church announced via Twitter that they would protest Steve Job’s funeral, they in fact tweeted it from an iPhone.
14. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was the first person to announce the death of Osama bin laden via Twitter.
15. The American Library of Congress archives everything ever posted on Twitter by everyone, since its creation in 2008.
16. North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il’s Grandson (Kim Han-sol) had a twitter, Facebook, and YouTube account on which he expressed sympathy towards the North Korean people.
17. Twitter’s founder decided on it’s name because a twitter “is defined as ‘a short burst of inconsequential information’… which is exactly what the product was”.
18. Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Taliban all have twitter accounts that are regularly updated.
19. Microsoft has a twitter account for quick Xbox support. It holds the Guinness World Record of the Most Responsive Brand on Twitter due to its quick responsiveness to complaints.
20. The bird on the Twitter logo is named Larry the Bird, named after Larry Bird of the NBA’s Boston Celtics fame.
21. Google and Twitter have been used to monitor disease epidemics.
22. In 2011, Iceland used Facebook, Twitter, and web comments to crowd source its constitution.
23. Facebook tried to buy twitter in 2008.
24. Jim Carrey has over five million twitter followers, yet he follows just a single person: his daughter, Jane.

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