Reasons Why Your Business Should Be on Twitter


1. Over 500 million tweets are sent per day. 
2. There are 36 million unique monthly visitors to Twitter.com per month.
3. There are 241 million monthly active Twitter users. 
4. The average user spends 170 million minutes on Twitter a month. 
5. 135,000 Twitter accounts are registered every day. 
6. 29% of Twitter users check their Twitter multiple times a day. 
7. 47% of people who follow a brand on Twitter are more likely to visit that company’s website. 
8. 74% of people follow small to medium sized businesses on Twitter to get product updates. 
9. 72% of Twitter followers are more likely to purchase a product from a brand they follow. 
10. There are 2.1 billion searches on Twitter every 24 hours. 
11. Twitter users are 3 times more likely to follow brands than Facebook users.  
12. 63% of brands on Twitter have multiple accounts Twitter. 
13. 50% of Tweets using Twitter’s native image system get re-tweeted. 
14. 9% of Americans use Twitter while at work. 
15. 40% of Twitter users have earned a Bachelors Degree. 
16. 11% of Americans Tweet every month. 
17. 46% of U.S. social media users access Twitter via their mobile phone. 
18. Twitter made 665 million in revenue in 2013 alone. 
19. 87 % of Twitter’s revenue in 2013 was from advertising. 
20. Wall Street estimates each Twitter user has an average value of $118.00. 
21. Average sales order value for visitors referred by Twitter: $46.29. 
22 The average Twitter user has 126 followers. 
23. 46% of Twitter users use it at least once a day. 
24. Sunday is the most popular day of the week for retweets. 
25. The top 100 global brands on Twitter send an average of 12 tweets per day. 
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