Twitter is in the top 3 social network sites in the world and is used to exchange short messages with friends and other Twitter members. The micro-blogging platform allows only 140 characters for every tweet and is a great way to share anything to make people aware of what you’re up to and to find out what others are doing. Like Facebook and LinkedIn, Twitter has also gained its position as a marketing channel used by businesses who are looking to reach out and add something interesting and valuable to their online marketing efforts.

Here are 10 interesting things which you probably didn’t know about Twitter.

#1 – The Original Name

The original name or the code name of this social network site was “twttr”. Later its name was finalised as “Twitter”. The first message on Twitter was posted by Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006 and was “just setting up my twttr” just 4 months before it was publicly launched in July 2006.