How to use Twitter ?

46% of U.S. social media users now access platforms such as Twitter and Facebook via their mobile phone, up 9% – almost one-quarter overall – from 2011.

31% of the average smartphone owner’s Internet time is spent social networking – close to twice as much as email.

Infographics added to Stumbleupon generate 746% more pageviews than other kinds of content.

There are 181,354 people on Twitter who use the term “social media” in their bio.

Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Canada, Argentina and Egypt.

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.

16% of U.S. Internet users are on Twitter.

The average Twitter user has 126 followers.

The average business has 14,709 Twitter followers.

There are more devices connected to the internet than there are people on the entire planet.

340 million tweets are sent each and every day.

During the “Castle in the Sky” TV screening there were 25,088 tweets per second, the most ever.

The most followed brand on Twitter is YouTube with 19 million followers.

60% of Twitter users are female.

On average, Twitter users spend 21 minutes monthly on Twitter.

40% of registered Twitter users have never sent a single tweet.

92% of retweets are based on interesting content.

Only 26% are due to the inclusion of “please RT!” in the tweet.

Between 2008 and 2011, there was a 5,000% increase in the number of employees at Twitter.

The official Twitter account for Sweden is run by a different citizen every week.

McDonalds employs 10 people to run their Twitter account.

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.

@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.

Infographics shared on Twitter get 832% more retweets than images and articles.

Twitter is available in more than 25 languages, including right-to-left languages like Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu.