Twitter: Chirping @ eight

Google creates Doodles, Facebook allowed its users to create their own videos. Now, it’s the turn of San Fransisco, US-based Twitter. On its eighth birthday, the microblogging website — co-founded in 2006 by Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone — has launched a tool to let you see your first tweet. You can view your or your friends’ first tweets using Tweet tool at http://first-tweets.com. Business Standard evaluates where the 140-character wonder, which not only transformed itself but the way people use the social media, stands at eight

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