INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT TWITTER :

1. Twitter was created in March 2006 by JACK DORSEY and launched in July of that year.

2. Twitter rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011, generating over 300 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. It is sometimes described as "the SMS of the Internet."

3. 3 years, 2 months and 1 day - The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet. But now it takes only 1 week to send 1 billion tweets.

4. Twitter was mainly created to use on Mobile. That's why its has limit of 140 characters.

5. In February 2009, Twitter had a monthly growth (of users) of over 1300 percent - several times more than Facebook.