Twitter celebrates its fifth birthday. Did you know that the time that elapsed from the first 'tweet' to the 'tweet' 1 billion was 3 years, 2 months and a day? On the anniversary of the popular microblogging platform we gathered ten figures that you are interested in knowing.
Researchers from Cornell University and Yahoo! Research have studied the flow of the 110 million messages that are published daily on the popular 'microblogging' network Twitter in order to shed some light on how 'tweets' influence.
According to the latest official Wikipedia ranking, at the end of 2008 the five contents globally most viewed in the online collaborative encyclopedia were 'Amero' (Redirection to the North American Monetary Union), 'Day of the Dead', 'Halloween', 'Wikipedia 'and' Global warming '.
This year, more than 13 million hours of video have been uploaded to YouTube, which is equivalent to approximately 1,500 years, and more than 700 billion videos have been viewed on the platform. In Spain, La Niña Repelente and Pocoyo are the big winners.
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the most tweeted topic in 2010, followed by the World Cup in South Africa, the movie Origen (Inception) and the Haiti Earthquake. Also in the top ten made public today by Twitter are Apple's iPad tablet (6) and the late Octopus Paul (10).
Google has released the list of most searched words in 2010. The ranking, known as 'Zeitgeist', is led in Spain by Facebook and Tuenti, the two most popular social networks on the Internet. It is completed by the terms YouTube (Google's video channel is in third position), Hotmail, Brand, games, Google, videos, Yahoo and AS.
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the soccer World Cup in South Africa topped the list of most searched topics in 2010, according to the Yahoo! search engine. It's the first time the news has ranked number one since the tech company began publishing its annual review a decade ago.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
