2. The idea of short online updates derived from text messaging.
3. On March 26, 2006, Jack Dorsey sent the world's first tweet: “just setting up my twttr".
4. Dorsey: “The definition [of “twitter”] was 'a short burst of inconsequential information,' and 'chirps from birds'. That’s what the product was."
5. Twitter was first used as an internal service by podcasting company Odeo, where its founders worked.
6. Dorsey, Evan Williams (founder of Blogger, later sold to Google) and Biz Stone created Obvious Corporation, Twitter’s predecessor, in 2006.
7. Noah Glass, who coined the name, was squeezed out of the company.
8. Twitter was built using open-source software, and the company contributes to a number of open-source projects.
9. Twitter has become an important business tool, used to gather market intelligence and as a PR platform.
10. Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) is the most popular person on Twitter with about 18 million followers as of mid-2011.
11. Four of the five most popular Twitter feeds belong to pop stars; President Barack Obama (@BarackObama) holds down the third slot.
12. The most popular athlete on Twitter is Spanish soccer star Ricardo Kaka (@KAKA), who comes in at No. 17.
13. CNN (@cnnbrk) is the top news organization on Twitter, with almost five million followers for its Breaking News feed.
14. Fake-news site The Onion (@TheOnion) outranks most serious news sites, with almost three million followers.
15. Google (@google) has the highest-ranked corporate presence on Twitter, after Twitter’s own English- and Spanish-language feeds.
16. Whole Foods (@WholeFoods) is the top retailer on Twitter, with about two million followers.
17. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh (@zappos ) is the top corporate CEO on Twitter (@BillGates has more followers, but he’s retired; @MarthaStewart does, too, but she is the brand).
18. Twitter has more than 200 million registered users, but the number of active users is unknown.
19. Twitter is the 9th most popular site on the Web, according to Alexa.
20. Twitter generates about 200 million tweets and handles 1.6 billion search queries each day.
21. Twitter's estimated value as of mid-2011 is about $8 billion.
22. A tweet is a post to the site; “tweet” is also a verb, meaning to post a message.
23. Retweeting and/or responding to posts by others drives the social networking element of the service.
24. The # symbol, called a hashtag, marks keywords or topics in a Tweet; users came up with the system on their own.
25. When Twitter is unavailable, the "Fail Whale" graphic appears on screen; the whale itself has a cult following.
26. Twitter is based in San Francisco, but has server farms and offices in San Antonio and Boston.
27. Twitter is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Indonesian, Spanish and other
28. Protestors in Egypt in 2011, in Tunisia in 2010-11, and in Iran in 2009-10 used Twitter to organize.
29. Twitter has been blocked in China since June 2, 2009.
30. The record for tweets-per-second was set just after midnight on New Year's Day 2011 in Japan with 6,939.
31. After the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March 2011, Twitter launched #hope4japan to encourage donations to the American Red Cross.
32. Mobile from the start, Twitter created apps for the iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Windows 7 and Android platforms.
33. The first tweet sent from space was posted from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut T. J. Creamer on January 22, 2010.
34. Twitter has fewer than 500 employees.
35. Dorsey is Twitter's executive chairman. Stone left in 2011 to work in VC. Williams, succeeded as CEO in 2010 by Dick Costolo, works on product strategy.
36. In 2008, MIT Technology Review added Dorsey to its list of top innovators under 35.
37. Stephen Colbert (@stephenathome) won Twitter's first Golden Tweet Award for most-re-tweeted tweet in December 2010.
38. Colbert's award-winning tweet, during the Gulf oil spill: "In honor of oil-soaked birds, 'tweets' are now 'gurgles.'"
39. You can follow Baseline on Twitter at @baselinemag.
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