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The iconic bird logo of the social media platform Twitter is named Larry as a tribute to NBA player Larry Bird, who played for the Boston Celtics, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone’s home-state team.
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In 2009, Evan Williams and Biz Stone were listed in Time’s 100 most influential people in the world, even before Jack Dorsey.
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As of January 2022, the most-liked tweet has over 7.2 million likes, and it was tweeted from the late American actor Chadwick Boseman’s account by his family, informing the world about his demise.
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Only the South Korean band BTS has more than three most-liked tweets in the top 30. The band has 21 tweets in the list of top 30 most-liked tweets.
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Twitter is blocked in China because Chinese authorities prefer their homegrown social networks as they can have complete control over them, which Twitter doesn’t permit.
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Justin Bieber is the most followed celebrity on Twitter with over 114m followers, only behind former United States President Barack Obama.
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Twitter has enough money in the bank to survive approximately 412 years.
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The official Twitter account of @Sweden is given to a random Swedish citizen every week to manage with the expressed goal to manifest Swedish diversity and progressiveness.
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Twitter first made a profit in the fourth quarter of 2017, earning $91m (£65m).
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Out of 1.3 billion Twitter accounts, over 391 million accounts have no followers at all.
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Taylor Swift is the most influential person on Twitter, followed by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Katy Perry.
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The Face with Tears of Joy emoji “😂” is the most popular emoji on Twitter.
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The hashtag was first brought to Twitter on 23rd August 2007. Chris Messina introduced it in order to filter the tweets and help the existing users connect with a particular theme.
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The Twitter logo consists of overlaying 15 different symmetrical circles, which signifies giving everyone a voice.
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Out of all the Americans on Twitter, 71% use the platform only to read the news, and 42% use the platform to discuss politics.
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The statistical data shows over 75% of emojis tweeted on Twitter are positive, and the number increases by about 2% during Friday and Saturday.
