Twitter launched on March 21 in 2006, and things were never the same again. The infographic gives a detailed overview of the state of Twitter 2013, courtesy of DashBurst, a community and magazine about social media.
It took three years, two months, and one day for the first billionth tweet. Nowadays, one billion tweets are tweeted weekly. More than 200 million tweets are tweeted daily. Riyadh is the 10th city worldwide in terms of number of tweets. Some 170 billion tweets have been sent and exchanged since those early days, and Twitter now boasts more than 300 million active users and an increasingly important presence in the mobile social space. Accordingly, Twitter Inc. has grown to employ more than 900 people and has an estimated value of at least $ 10 billion (SR 37.5 billion).
