Tweet tweet. 

Yep, that’s my mother tongue I am so very proud of. Who won’t be? Is there anything more exhilarating than having a whole kingdom named after your mother tongue? Maybe having a whole kingdom named after you. But being of a humble character, I won't ask for more.

Lately, I read the autobiography of my pal, the like button and that enthused me to write my own. So here you are Mr. Rey, this is the story I would like you to publish.

 I may not be something you could punch, hit or destroy, but that doesn’t make me less important.

 Let me divulge my real identity first of all, it is really disheartening to hear people call me “the twitter bird”. I am Larry, Larry the twitter bird. I am the last one or as I like to say ‘only one’ of my kind. I was never told about the species I belong to or how my ancestors looked like but that doesn’t dishearten me in any way.

 Simon Oxley, a British graphic designer was the very first person I saw and remember and he calls himself a proud designer of mine (A bit disappointment over the fact that I wasn’t born, but designed) I was just one among hundreds of illustrations he offered for sale on the iStock website in 2006, where someone from Twitter did not mind spending $15 on me. I overheard people saying –“Oxley’s bird is a slender, serene fellow, adorned only by a stylized eye and perched on a branch that splits off into an elegant Japanese-­influenced gathering of curlicues.” Whoa! My heart filled with pride and I became desperate for a mirror to look myself in.

my timeline..

I was barely three when Biz Stone, a developer performed a facelift on me but wasn’t quite pleased with his work as Doug Bowman (twitter founder) in 2011, performed yet another surgery and gave me the identity that I still carry around. In one of Bowman’s description about me, he said – “the bird has a beak and body that point toward the sky-the ultimate representation of freedom, hope and limitless possibility.”

Apart from twitter, you can find me on blogs and websites, sitting silently or flying around. There’s no doubt that I add beauty to every place I visit. However, many have tried creating imitations of me and people often confuse me with them. Always do remember, I am not just any blue bird, I am Larry, the twitter bird.

Signing off…

Yours,

Larry, the twitter bird.

Who doesn't know about twitter, the most active social networking site and what is good about it is that you can meet and follow  "real" 

people. Here is a list of 45 facts about twitter some of which you may already know and some which you will get to know after reading this.

The 45 Twitter Fun Facts:

1. The name of the social network was originally “Twttr,” later changed to Twitter.

2. It took 3 years, 2 months and 1 day to get to the billionth tweet.

3. Today it only takes one week for users to send a billion tweets.

4. 10 tweets per second mention Starbucks.

5. The average Twitter user has tweeted 307 times.

6. Barack Obama’s victory tweet was the most retweeted tweet ever with more than 800K retweets.

7. The 2012 election broke records with 31.7 million political tweets. Election Day was by far the most tweeted about event in US political history.

8. 32% of all Internet users are using Twitter.

9. 69% of follows on Twitter are suggested by friends.

10. In 2012, almost 1 million accounts were added to Twitter every day.

11. Lady Gaga – the most followed Twitterer, with almost 33 million followers - gains followers faster than Twitter adds new accounts.

12. The USA’s 141.8 million accounts represent 27.4% of all Twitter users.

13. 50% of Twitter users are using the social network via mobile.

14. 2012 brought an 800% increase in top TV show tweets.

15. Over the span of 16 days, the London Olympics generated 150 million tweets.

16. There were 13.7 million football-related tweets during the 2012 Super Bowl, 1 million of which appeared in the game’s final 5 minutes.

18. While the average religious leader can expect one retweet for every 500 followers, the average musician only sees one retweet for every 30,000 followers.





19. There are 181,354 people on Twitter who use the term “social media” in their bio.

20. Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Canada, Argentina and Egypt.

21. With more than 3 million active Twitter users, Saudi Arabia, with a 300% year-on-year growth rate, ranks #1 in the world as the fastest-growing Twitter nation.

22. 16% of U.S. Internet users are on Twitter.

23. The average Twitter user has 126 followers.

24. The average business has 14,709 Twitter followers.

25. 340 million tweets are sent each and every day.

26. During the “Castle in the Sky” TV screening there were 25,088 tweets per second, the most ever.

27. The most followed brand on Twitter is YouTube with 19 million followers.

28. 60% of Twitter users are female.

29. On average, Twitter users spend 21 minutes monthly on Twitter.

30. 40% of registered Twitter users have never sent a single tweet.

31. 92% of retweets are based on interesting content.

32. Only 26% are due to the inclusion of “please RT!” in the tweet.

33. Between 2008 and 2011, there was a 5,000% increase in the number of employees at Twitter.

34. The official Twitter account for Sweden is run by a different citizen every week.

35. McDonalds employs 10 people to run their Twitter account.

36. Everyword is a Twitter account created by Adam Parrish in December 2007 to share every word in the English language on Twitter. Since then, this account has tweeted 84k+ words.

37. @RealTimeWWII, a Twitter accounted created by Oxford history graduate Alwyn Collinson, narrates World War II on Twitter in real time; all the tweets are manually written, with no script used.

38. Infographics shared on Twitter get 832% more retweets than images and articles.

39. Twitter is available in more than 25 languages, including right-to-left languages like Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu.

40. As of the end of 2012, Twitter has more than 200 million active users.

41. Twitter is now worth more than $11 billion.

42. 16% of customers use Facebook, Twitter and the other major social networks to interact with businesses.

43. 75%, or three out of four, heads of state are utilizing Twitter.

44. That’s a 78% increase in the number of heads of state and national governments on Twitter from 2011. Which means Twitter is taking over the world. And we’re ok with that.

45. I have a twitter account :p

compiled from: Mediabistro