13 shocking things you didn't know about Twitter

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October 22, 2015 5:10 PM

On a global scale, Twitter has become so popular and is one of the most valuable companies in the world.

Research reveals the way you tweet 'can reveal how much money you make'

Twitter is perhaps one of the more popular social media platform in Nigeria, after Facebook. However, there is no denying that a lot of people don’t know much about the microblogging site, and even more don’t even use it.

On a much more global scale, Twitter has become so popular and is one of the most valuable companies in the world.

Here are 13 things you didn’t know about Twitter:

347,000 tweets are sent every minute.
A study has found that Twitter is more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol.
When the founders of Twitter wanted to name the platform, one of the names they considered was

The FBI has an entire dictionary for Twitter slangs.
Every week, the official Twitter account of Sweden (@Sweden) is given to a random citizen to manage.
The CIA reads up to five million tweets every day.

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The bird in Twitter’s logo is called ‘Larry’.

According to the Vatican, you can reduce the amount of time you spend in purgatory by following the Pope on Twitter.
There is a Twitter account that narrates World War II in
In April, 2013, someone hacked the Twitter account of the

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