THE GLOBAL TWEET
241 mn Number of monthly active users on the microblogging site
500 mn Tweets posted every day
76% Proportion of active Twitter users that operate via mobile phones
77% Proportion of accounts that are outside the US, Twitter’s homeland
$29.55 bn Twitter’s market cap as on Friday (against rival social media giant Facebook’s $171.17 bn)
INDIANS AVID USERS
# Hooked The country figures among the top 10 in user base outside the US
# Most trending tags in 2013
Politics: Modi, Rahul Gandhi and BJP
Cricket: ThankYouSachin, IndVsAus and IPL
Bollywoord: WeLoveSRK, Akshay2000Crore and Pran
News: AfzalGuru, Tejpal and Syria
Here are eight other memorable first Tweets:
@SrBachchan: @juniorbachchan hey baby !! I made it on twitter !!! Yeeaaaaaahhhh !! ... sorry.. just got carried away .. safe onward flight and love
https://twitter.com/SrBachchan/status/14209703250
@iamsrk: hi everyone. being extremely shy i never thought i would be here. but my friend @kjohar25 insisted that i should learn to share my life.
https://twitter.com/iamsrk/status/7309887027
@sachin_rt: Finally the original SRT is on twitter n the first thing I'd like to do is wish my colleagues the best in the windies,
https://twitter.com/sachin_rt/status/13377392823
@NSaina: Entering the world of Twitter for the first time! Looking forward to great interactions with Fans!!! So here goes my first tweet! :)
https://twitter.com/NSaina/status/315377612744695810
@vikramchandra: the problem with rains is that the city collapses!
https://twitter.com/vikramchandra/status/3552880862
@anandmahindra: just entering the big bad world of tweeting......
https://twitter.com/anandmahindra/status/1582475314
@thevirdas: Training today: Cardio + Yoga. I'm a bloody comic. If god wanted me to touch my toes, he would've put them a lot bloody closer to my body.
https://twitter.com/thevirdas/status/8187571078
@SriSri: truth is that which u cannot avoid
https://twitter.com/SriSri/status/5820054523
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