TWITTER FACTS

- Twitter has 310 million monthly active users, almost the same as the U.S. population.

- "Friendstalker" was one of the early names considered for Twitter.

- The FBI has a Twitter slang dictionary.

- The official Twitter account of @Sweden is given to a random citizen every week to manage.

- In 2013, a fake tweet temporarily wiped out US$130 billion off the stock market. Someone hacked Associated Press Twitter account and tweeted that 2 bombs had exploded at the White House.

- The CIA reads up to 5 million tweets a day.

- Twitter's iconic bird logo is named after a basketball legend Larry Bird, a famous former Boston Celtics forward.

- Twitter did not invent the hashtags. Hashtags date back to 1988, when people communicated via chat rooms. The first hashtags made their way to Twitter in 2007.

- Katy Perry has the most followers on Twitter almost 85 million, Justin Bieber comes in second and Taylor Swift third. The most followed brand on Twitter is not Twitter, it's YouTube.

- Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times have been blocked in China since 2009.

- About 44% of registered Twitter users have never tweeted.

- After Michael Jackson's death hit the news, he was mentioned in a rate of 5,000 tweets per minute.

- Twitter bought Vine for US$30 million several months before it was even officially released.

- According to a study, Twitter is more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol.

- A 2016 Twitter hack found that 123456 was the site's most common password more than 120,000 people were using it.

- Twitter has enough money in the bank to run for 412 years with current losses.

- During his first month in office, Donald Trump spent an estimated 18 hours on tweets.