The Who, Why, And How Of Twitter ?

Twitter is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page.

Twitter was produced in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched in July. Since then Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and is estimated to have 200 million users, generating 190 million tweets a day and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet".

Now that Twitter has been in operation for a few years, have you ever wondered about the stats behind people and businesses who use it? Then here is your chance to find out. This handy infographic lets you know about things such as the people who are most likely to use Twitter, the number of tweets sent per day, how people use Twitter, what they use it for, and more.

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