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

inspired by the twilight saga??

Notifications are exciting. It may be a like or comment on your post or a post by someone you follow. Whatever it may be, it always brings a smile on the face, Right? Wrong. Not always. Especially if you are using a dial-up connection with a high speed internet as mine (30KB/s) and the notification is nothing other than a game request. Games on social networks are designed to force people to invite more friends to play it or shell out a few coins to make up for the audience they lose.

The latest addictive game under this category is the ‘Candy crush saga’. I would like to get the autograph of the facebook user who hasn’t received a single candy crush saga request till date. These requests irritate much more than a best friend. So here is a way to stop the candy crush nuisance:

Method 1: Stop Candy Crush Facebook Notifications

This method is for those who are using candy crush app on their phone, but don’t want any request on their Facebook account.

1) Open your Facebook account and open the settings menu

2) Now select “Apps” from Left sidebar

3) Now find “Candy Crush Saga” app and click on the edit button

4) Now in “When to notify you” section, select “Never” option

That’s it, now you will never receive the notification on your Facebook profile, you can enjoy your game and accept and send requests using the candy crush app.

Method 2: Block Candy Crush Facebook Notifications

This method is for those who have no relation with Candy crush saga whatsoever.

1) Open your Facebook account and open settings menu

2) Now select the “blocking” option from left side bar

3) Now go to Block Apps option and type Candy Crush

4) Select the candy crush saga app.

5) You can now see that the app is blocked.

Among the thousand ways to waste your precious time, logging into facebook might just top the list. In a survey conducted (I don’t know by whom), 52% of all users confessed that they wanted to quit Facebook but couldn’t get their cursor to the ‘deactivate’ button. Here, I am talking about quitting ‘Facebook’ which is much different from quitting social media as a whole. So, if you ever think of doing something worthwhile with your life, this article may help you take the first step (which is no less than a giant leap)

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1) Keep another hobby ready: “I log out of facebook. Reason- I’m bored. After two minutes I log in again. Reason- I’m bored” says a facebook status gone viral. There may be many reasons you log into the social network but the three definite reasons would be – a) to connect to old and new friends and share photos, videos blah blah blah.. b) to kill time (though option (a) does almost the same thing) and c) to propel your business. All I would say is – Think deep about something to do in your free time, else you would find yourself glued to the blue laced site within a few minutes again.

try to face your the instead

2) Try out another social network: As I mentioned before, shunning Facebook doesn’t mean leaving the entire social media. There are dozens of similar sites striving (don’t know since when) to grab your attention. It is my humble duty to mention some of them – Google+ (Facebook killed Orkut, so here is another one from Google), Ello (the one that doesn’t track you), Care2 (for people who want to fight for a cause), twitter (no need to elaborate). Why don’t you just google it!

3) Use distraction killers: Your new hobby might be blogging, or something which requires you to be online but the frequent Facebook notifications and pop-ups won’t let you keep calm and concentrate? Or you just want to cut short the time you spend on Facebook (or other social networks)? Here are four applications that might help.

The fb rehab app

•  Self-control: the ‘use with caution’ app lets you make a list of all the pages you want to block and define the time period you want them to be unavailable to you. This app actually helps you to control your temptation. But be careful before using it. Once you add the sites to the block list, there is no going back. Restarting the system, using a proxy or another browser is not going to help and you must wait until the time runs out.
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• Fb Rehab: This one lets you peep into your Facebook account just twice a day, each session lasting ten minutes. 

• iFreeface: this distraction blocking PC application helps you concentrate on studies instead of dangling around on the fb wall.

• Facebook Addict Alarm: if there is anything for frustrating than the morning alarm bell, its this. It pops up every fifteen minutes to force you to logout.

These are just suggestions that might help you but what it actually takes to deactivate your Facebook account? – WILL POWER.

 
  In the age of Internet, what matters most is how you look, converse and behave online irrespective of what your character is in the real world. Social Networks act as a platform where you can create a virtual you and deceive people into believing that it is the real you. While some manage to draw ‘likes’ as well as attention, some others stay in a constant anxiety due to the scanty attention their stuffs receive.

What I am going to tell you is not how to get more no. of likes or followers (though it may help you get that), but to make a smarter social presence.

Also don't freak out your friends like this..

       The profile picture:  The first thing someone ever notices. It is always a better idea to keep a high-resolution picture than one taken with a webcam or a VGA camera. In case you want to edit the photo, make sure it doesn’t look like as if you have undergone a plastic surgery. Note that selfies are not always the best choice on every social network. Be creative, think something unique. For example, searching for ‘creative facebook covers’ in google images will give you images of profiles where their profile picture is in accordance with the cover.

                  Profile name: Keeping a profile name containing symbols such as ‘@’ instead of ‘a’ or ‘$’ instead of ‘s’ and using adjectives such as ‘cool’, ‘sweet’ etc. may look cool, but not smart. I recommend limiting them to your Facebook or whatsapp account. Real names are nothing to be ashamed of and that’s why three out of four people go for it.

                 Basic info: Be genuine. Fill up the details that you wish to share keeping in mind your privacy. Never ever assume that people will be impressed if you fill up fields like – ‘working at Google’ or ‘engineer at Facebook’. I can’t help but laugh out loud when I come across people like – ‘working at I am not working yet. I am still studying’.

                What you post and chat about: (warning: this one is gonna be long) Last but not the least; your status speaks a lot about you. You are free to post about anything, anytime but make sure the language you use is proper and clear and your message makes the impact it is supposed to. A mixture of upper and lower case letters ‘eg. hI mY n@mE iS Sh@RaTh’ frustrates me, I can’t say about others. If you are using two or three different languages in a single post, make sure it is separated and easily understandable.

       Another important thing to keep in mind is that, you may be the most handsome or beautiful person in the world, but keeping on changing the profile picture every hour or so is not going to get you a million fan base. You may change it monthly or weekly but make sure changing your profile picture is not the only activity you do on social networks.

       While chatting, be aware of the age (approx.), gender, and character of the person you are chatting to.

Do you have any other ideas for being smart on social networks? Share it in the comment box.

 You are obsessed with Facebook. The simple and attractive layout, the option of sharing almost everything in your clogged brain and the ability to make your stuff reach out to the maximum has made it almost impossible for you to leave it untouched. I remember one of friends "saying Facebook is like my refrigerator. Though there is nothing inside, I peep into it every half an hour."

     Suppose you got up one day, opened the browser, typed in the URL and what you got is a 404 error page showing – “webpage not found”. What would be your first reaction? Would you fall off the chair or would you be pleased that you no longer need to face the blue hyped facebook login page. The reaction would surely differ from person to person depending upon the way they make use of the social network, here is how I think it would affect our daily lives. A facebook less day initiative : Here it is

never say never

Boredom: This one is for amateurs who use facebook just to interact with friends and update their status. Absence of Facebook, would probably not put them in a state of depression. In my opinion, the only thing that would disappoint these users is that they would lose an account of  everything that he/she had shared with friends. It’s almost obvious that they would soon find an alternative to it, but will these people ever be able to forget the pleasant time spent on Facebook.

No “Like” Button: Among the many virtual hand gesture, the thumb up button is the most addictive one, a kind of can die for type. The popularity of post, a page, a picture or a video is aggregated on the basis of the number of likes they receive. And based upon my observations,  users keep no strings pulled to get the maximum number of thumbs up. My own friends tag people, share it repeatedly and some even beg their friends for it. In the absence of this most preferred gesture, I just hope they don’t cut off their own thumbs.

Affect on advertisement: With the end of Facebook, the advertisers though would surely get another platform to expand their business, they might find hard time to mingle with the new environment and if I am right, they would soon get frustrated and if I am wrong, I would make a terrible entrepreneur .

Back to Real world: To some, I may seem crazy, but I could think of only one way it might prove to be a good thing – Welcome back everyone to the real world. Facebook acts as a virtual world for each of those addicted ones who spend more than half of their precious time managing their relationships and their status online.  Once the virtual world vanishes, I just hope that people start interacting and living the way they used to do several years ago. This may bind the relationships.
Though Mark seems to have no intention of bringing this wonderful social network to an end anytime soon or in the near future, I spent much of my time thinking about the after effects of this step. Make the most of Facebook now and hope that it stays there forever.

A whopping $19 billion. Thats what Facebook spent in order to buy the most popular messenger- whatsapp.

Facebook’s hold over the mobile messaging giant whatsapp is the most trending topic of today. The social networking giant added whatsapp to its collection. This was a rather unexpected step from Mark Zuckerberg and its going to change the way people interact. Let us have a look at  what it has got in store for the company, the advertisers and of course, the common users.

What it means to the company?

With more than 7.2 billion active users and as many pages, Facebook rules the world of social networking and  with the addition of whatsapp, the most popular mobile messenger, no wonder, its going to be more addictive than ever. But was Zuckerberg really looking for a messenger worth 19 billion USD  or was he looking for something else to replace the not so inspiring facebook messenger ? Here is how, in my opinion, the company, the users and the advertisers would benefit from it.

do you like the whatbook.err...or.. faceapp??

Furthermore, if Facebook happens to replace its outdated and rather clumsy  chat messenger with the popular WhatsApp messenger to the liking of users, Facebook would be able to draw more attention and prevent existing users from bidding goodbye. We truly hope that such a replacement would also prevent the lags currently faced by the native chat messenger.
As I mentioned earlier, whatsapp is the most popular messaging app with almost no competition. On the other hand, Facebook messenger’s failure in mobile devices has paved the way for whatsapp to attract more users than Facebook. Now, thanks to the masterful step from Zuckerberg, the threat has been eliminated and Facebook can keep the hope of ruling over the world of social networking for years to come, alive.

What it means to the Users?

The integration of Whatsapp messenger with Facebook will give the users a more user friendly experience and it would add to the fun. All the lags faced by Facebook chat would be covered up by this advanced messenger. The replacement of the native messenger with the new Whatsapp messenger would thus be an important step.

Further, the small demands and the problems of  Whatsapp users would be taken care off by Facebook. The high end security provided by Facebook would also be available in Whatsapp too.

However, a problem may arise if the company makes it mandatory for Whatsapp users to have a Facebook account in order to continue using it. There hasn’t been any such news thus far and we hope we don’t hear it anytime in the future too.

What it means to the advertisers?

Advertisers can experience an even more comfortable way to promote their business. Advertisers will be able to extend their promotions to a larger audience in an easy way. This will attract more attention both from the Facbook users and the Whatsappers too.

Thus said, In my opinion, Facebook has indeed made the most of its time and money. We are exited to try it out - the whatbook.

I wonder if anyone would care in-case it was colorless..

Gaze at the image on the top. Now, without opening the google website an another tab, try to spell out the colors in the logo in the exact order..

You use it on a daily basis, but you will still find it hard to recognize the colors on its logo in the exact sequence. Before you open the website in a new tab to check it out, I am gonna  reveal it. The color sequence is Blue-Red-Yellow-Red-Green-Blue. The colors are vibrant and give the logo a cool and attractive look. But have you ever wondered why the color combination is so? Read on and don’t let your brain go nuts over this question.

Before you knock my brain off for wasting your precious time, I confess that the following are just based on my assumptions and none of them have been proved right or wrong.

Why are you wearing a red colored shirt? Well, that’s my favorite; I didn’t think over it, I don't have any other. These answers are obvious. The colors and its sequence may just be an instant idea or may be the creators’ personal favorite or something else which is of course, none of my business. But I find it hard to keep myself from digging into these matters.

Reason 1: The Official Answer

“There were a lot of different color iterations”, Kedar says. “We ended up with the primary colors, but instead of having the pattern go in order, we put a secondary color on the ‘l’, which brought the idea that Google doesn’t follow any rules”. No doubt, the primary colors are essential for any art and it may be the reason Google looks beautiful.

Reason 2: Nature of colors

The first three letters ‘g’ ‘o’ ‘o’ are colored Blue, Red and Yellow respectively which represent the primary colors. But while dealing with software development. The  obvious choice is RGB,Red, Green and Blue and thus the color of the next three letters.

Reason 3: Realtion with numbers

Lets take a look at the first five letters. The first letter is colored blue, the third is yellow and the fifth is green. Red, the color which has been omitted at the primary place possible because of its repeatation. Blue may be the beggining of the next such series. This is the least possible reasons and Google might not have given a thought about it. By the way, one is neither prime nor composite. So, this reason stands cancelled.

Well, thats all. I have made my brain go topsy-turvy over this question and here are three of my findings. My hunt for the answer is not over yet.