Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass and launched in July 2006.

I wanted to give you a brief overview of various Twitter statistics from 2016.

• There are 330M monthly active users

• A total of 1.3 billion accounts have been created

• Of those, 44% made an account and left before ever sending a Tweet

• Only 550 million people have ever sent a Tweet

• 500 million people visit the site each month without logging in

• There are 500 million Tweets sent each day. That’s 6,000 Tweets every second

• A day’s worth of Tweets would fill a 10 million page book

• 77% of Twitter users feel more positive about a brand when their Tweet has been replied to

• 58% of top brands have over 100,000 followers on Twitter

• 92% of companies Tweet more than once a day, 42% Tweet 1-5 times a day, and 19% Tweet 6-10 times a day

• The average Twitter user follows five businesses

• 80% of Twitter users have mentioned a brand in a Tweet

A huge thank you to Global Media Insight, Mashable and Brandwatch for the statistics, and infographics.