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(#18) Phones Are to Blame for the 140-Character Limit
Phones haven't always been able to do anything and everything with ease. A standard sms (short message service) limit is 160 characters. As such, a 140-character limit was set on tweets to make them more phone friendly; the extra 20 characters were reserved for usernames.
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(#20) A Single User Has Sent More Than 37.8 Million Tweets
Maybe you're thinking this user must be a bot, but @VENETHIS appears to be a real person, a random Japanese gamer who really likes to tweet. Like, really likes to tweet. How much does @VENETHIS like to tweet? Well, he's sent out almost 31 million more tweets than any other Twitter user.
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(#8) Twitter Has More Active Users Than Ever in 2016
In the fourth quarter of 2015, the number of active twitter users dropped for the first time in the site's history. Luckily for the platform, it rebounded in the first quarter of 2016, when it boasted more users than ever before; 310 million, to be precise.
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(#3) Katy Perry, the Most Popular Person on Twitter
Katy Perry is the queen of Twitter. She has more than 84 million followers, nearly eight million more than Justin Bieber, her closest competitor. Taylor Swift, President Obama, and YouTube round out the top five. Vladmir Putin lags far behind this cabal of powerful Americans, with only 395,000 followers. But don't worry, Russia will rise again.
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(#21) Twitter Announced Its IPO with a Tweet
The founders of Twitter believe the platform is a serious way to communicate, rather than a popular diversion. Appropriately, one of the most serious things to ever happen to the company was announced via tweet in 2013.
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(#11) The Lakers, by Far the Most Popular Team on Twitter
The Los Angeles Lakers might not be doing well on the court, but on Twitter, they're on fire. The team have an impressive 4.85 million followers. For comparison's sake, the Golden State Warriors have 1.7 million followers, and the Cavs a measly 1.1 million.
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