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25 Random Facts About Twitter

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:32:15 +0000

Twitter is a great free service that lets its users to send a message (tweet) that is limited to 140 characters long to their followers. Twitter is used by million of people today to share their thoughts with followers. It has been 4 years since Twitter is started and there are some interesting facts and figures about twitter and its users. Here are 25 random facts about Twitter.

Twitter was founded in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams.
Twttr was the first name given to Twitter inspired by Flickr and the fact than American SMS codes are five characters.
Twitter beta was launched on 31 March 2006 on Evan Williams(one of the founders) birth day.
Twttr.com was re-branded as twitter.com in October 2006.
21 March 2006, first tweet was sent be Jack Dorsey that read ‘Just setting up my twttr‘.
June 2006, twitter.com was launched for public.
February 2007, 140 character limit was introduced.
April 2007, Twitter was created as a separate company.
28th may 2010, Twitter introduced the status blog to communicate with users about service and issues.
7th May 2008, Twitter started blacklisting spammers.
24% of Twitter users have 0 followers and 81% of twitter users have less than 100 followers.
Twitter users are sending 55 million tweets per day which makes it 640 tweets a second.
Twitter search engine gets 600 million queries a day.
Thursday and Friday are the most active days at twitter, accounting 16% of total tweets.
USA has most twitter users (33.3%) followed by India (8.2%) and Japan (7.1%).
Developers have created 70,000 applications using Twitter API.
Twitter has 175 employees.
Twitter has more than 106 Million registered accounts and 300,000+ new users register daily.
There are more women (55%) than men (45%) users on twitter.
More than half of Twitter users tweet without going to twitter.com (using mobile phones, apps etc).
Britney Spears is the top twitter user with 5,250,798 followers, Ashton Kutcher is number two with 5,184,305 followers and Ellen DeGeneres on nmuber 3 having 4,803,480 followers. Lady Gaga is on number 4th while Barack Obama is 5th (Numbers taken today).
All of the top 10 twitter users are celebrities.
US Attorney General Mark Shurtleff announced convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner’s execution by Utah firing squad (first execution of its kind in 14 years in US) on Twitter.
A NASA astronaut, Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer, made history by sending the first message from space that reads ‘Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! : ) More soon, send your ?s’. This happened after NASA upgraded their system to grant Space Station astronauts direct personal access to the Web.
If you print all tweets on Twitter, it will require 350 Million sheets of paper and if you want to read all tweets it will take you 2912 years to go through them.

Also checkout Youtube facts that i have shared already.

Delete All Tweets from Your Twitter Account

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:13:12 +0000

You may want to mass delete all your tweets in your twitter account before handing it to someone or if you want to start over again. There can be many other reasons like using the account for a business/website/blog instead of your self or if you have lots of re-tweets of same post/link because of a plugin that you installed and many many others.

Twitter has no such option to delete all your tweets in one go but TwitWipe, an external app, can do this for you. So if you have decided to clean your Twitter account by deleting all tweets. Here is the method.

Login to TwitWipe using your Twitter ID
There will be an option to grant access to TwitWipe on right, click on the link and authenticate your account
After this, there will be a ‘Start Wiping‘ in the same place as grant access to TwitWipe application link appeared in last step. Click on it.
You will have to confirm your decision, there are two options to go for ‘yeah‘ or ‘No‘. Click ‘yeah’ to confirm the process
After this, deletion of tweets will start and you can always stop it from ‘Stop IT!‘ button

This application makes it easy for you to delete all you tweets if you want to without deleting them individually.

Free Animated Avatar Creator

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:09:06 +0000

We all need Avatars to use in online forums, blogs, twitter, facebook and many other social activities. There are some cool animated avatars that get more attention and feedback than others. Now you can also get those animated avatars through online avatar creators and here is one of them.

Avatar Photo Creator is a website that lets you create cool animated and still avatars. There are plenty of designs,effects and styles to choose from. So get to this website and create avatars with cool effects. You can upload avatar picture from your PC or give a URL of online images. Here are some of avatars with cool effects.

These are just some of the available effects, you can have loads more of theme. Just add the avatar photo, select the effect and get the .gif animated avatar.
Visit Avatar Photo Creator

Twitter for Blackberry Beta v1.0.0.37 Leaked

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:26:53 +0000

If you were waiting for official twitter for blackberry release, it has not released yet officially. There is an unofficial leaked version out however. This should keep everyone happy till official release which should not be in a weak or two. So the main feature are.

Disable navigation bar option
Disable the update box in the app’s home screen.
Set the font for your time line
View lists and create them
Enlarge the user’s avatar by clicking it
Edit profile
Data cache is used in new version for better performance

Download the app and let us know how it works for you.

Download Here

Play Farmville Facebook Game on Farmville.com

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:27:10 +0000

Farmville game fans can now play the Farmville game at Farmville.com bypassing the Farmville Facebook App which Facebook users were using from a long time. You need to connect to Facebook for Login to retrive the save game and the level but the interface is much better at www.farmville.com.

For all Farmville addicted, the game screen at farmville.com is less cluttered and Facebook ads free so you will definatly love the game. The game may come up as Facebook independent in future and the owner may allwo to play it without having any contact with Facebook.
Zynga is largest developer of social games and 100 million unique users come to play its games every month. FarmVille is the largest social game with over 65 million virtual farmers, 26 million of which play the game every day.
Now go and enjoy the game at new website. If you get out of sync errors go to this link to fix them.

15 Cool Facebook Chat Smileys

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:17:30 +0000

By adding smileys and emoticons codes you can add some spark in your Facebook chat. So here are some codes that you can use to get the faces and symbols on facebook chat. Use the codes under each emoticon and the emoticon will appear in your chat.

Happy : ) OR : -)

Really Happy : D or :- D

Wink ; ) or ;- )

Happy eyes ^_^

(NEW )Penguin <(“)

(NEW) Shark (^^^)

Weird guy’s face :putnam:

Devil 3:)

Woot O.o

Rude :p or :-p

Cool shades 8-|

Crying :’(

Pacman :v

Angel O:)

Glasses 8 ) or 8- )

Also checkout how to appear invisible on Facebook Chat.

3 Sites for Free Cool Youtube Channel Backgrounds

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:51:38 +0000

You need to get some cool background for your Youtube channel to stand out and use your channel effectively to get more views, subscribers etc. You can either make custom Youtube backgrounds or download some free online. Here are 3 sites to download cool, professional and inspiring backgrounds for your Youtube Channel. check them out to get free themes for your channel.

MyTubeDesing

The site has some pretty cool Youtube channel backgrounds, arranged in categories. Most of the template on the site are free. The site also have free designs for Youtube Partners. The site is dedicated to Youtube community and the talented Youtube users can showcase their youtube channels.

YTLayouts

A great site in the sense that all layouts on the site are free to download. The layouts are categorized for users in categories like gaming layouts, entertainment layouts, celebrity layouts, car layouts,sports layouts etc. There are photoshop tutorials to help you design your own Youtube channel layout and also a section containing popular layouts.

BackgroundTube

There are some cool backgrounds to download for free (avoid some that need you to fill some survey etc to proceed). The site contains lot of variety in different sections to download and use for free. There are videos on helping you in how tos and getiing more subscribers at youtube. You can search the database to get theme of your taste.

Do use these free cool Youtube backgrounds and layouts to get more subscribers. Your Youtube channel is your home at Youtube, get it decorated. Also checkout some interesting youtube facts.

How to Make Custom Youtube Channel Background

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:01:14 +0000

Youtube is being used for marketing purpose by many companies and brands and it is vital to have a nice custom background for your Youtube Channel. It is not difficult to design a background for your channel. follow these steps and you will have a nice template to use as background of your Youtube Channel.

Go to Youtube channel and logout of your Youtube account so that you do not see ‘Edit Channel‘ bar on Youtube.
Maximize the screen and press Ctrl – o to remove zoom (If anything left, hit F11 to hide all the menu bars and the scroll bars).
Press ‘Print Screen‘ button on your keyboard and then paste the screen shot in Photoshop or GIMP or Paint.NET or ant other image editor.
This is your template, this is exactly how different element will appear. You can change designing, colors etc according to your choice.

If you do not want to do this process yourself, download the ready made template here OR PSD . You can make your desire changes in the template.
Also do not forget to have look at youtube facts, some very interesting things to know about Youtube.

10 Interesting Facts About Youtube

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:51:30 +0000

Youtube founders Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim created Youtube because they wanted to share videos from a dinner party with friends and their email programs would not accept big size video files. Youtube enabled million of people with video camera and internet connection to share their stories with the World since it was created.

There are some interesting facts about Youtube though that a few people know. Let me go through some of them.

All three founders (Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim) of Youtube were working for Paypal when they started Youtube.
Youtube domain was registered on Valentines Day (February 14, 2005).
70% of Youtube’s registered users are from USA and half of Youtube users are under 20 years old.
If Youtube was Hollywood, they have enough material to release 60,000 new films every week.
More videos were uploaded on Youtube in last two months than if NBC, ABC, CBS had be airing new content 24/7/365 since 1948 (Since ABC started broadcasting).
The total amount of bandwidth used by Youtube is about the same as used by entire internet in 2000.
One needs over 1000 years of time to watch all videos on Youtube (but there will be billion of more videos uploaded on Youtube by then).
Most popular category for uploaded videos is ‘Music’ having around 20% Youtube videos.
United States users upload most of Youtube videos followed by UK and USA users also watch most Youtube videos followed by Japan.
The first ever video that was uploaded on Youtube is by Jawed Karim (one of Youtube founders) titled “Me at zoo” on April 23rd, 2005 which is 18 seconds long. Here is the video

Click here to view the embedded video.

How To Delete A Twitter Account

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:01:45 +0000

If you are using Twitter and think it is not for you, or you are using different twitter accounts and want to delete some, or even if you want to stop using Twitter, you can always delete your Twitter ID so that another user can obtain it.
Follow these steps to delete your Twitter account.

Go to Twitter and Login to your account.
Select Settings in the upper right corner.

Select the Accounts tab.

Go to the bottom of page and click the “Delete My Account” link.

Confirmation Window will appear, click “Okay, fine delete my account” to confirm the deletion.

This process will delete your account permanently from Twitter.