Interesting Facts

1)Twitter handles 24 billion search queries a month. Yahoo handles 9.4 billion search queries and Bing handles about 4.1 search queries. This means Twitter is the ranked #2 search engine behind Google which handles about 88 billion search queries.

2)Twitter was born on the 21st of march , 2006 at exactly 12.50pm

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If Twitter were a Country...

Statistics before showed that if Facebook were a country, it is the third largest population country with about 400 million. Biz Stone announced on the Chrip Conference two weeks ago there are 105,779,710 registered users of Twitter, increasing about 2 million per week. If Twitter is a country, it would become the world's 12th largest population country.

4)Twitter's server can be easily overloaded. When it encountered overloading, you will see the sweet overload shark, by an Australian artist and designer Lu Yiying. She painted a few red birds using nets from the ocean to save the shark. There writes "Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again."