Happy 10th b'day Twitter

In a video looking back at its milestones, Twitter celebrated hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter, #with Malala, #LoveWins and #BringBackOurGirls - all of which sparked global conversations about social change, securing the platform's place in history books. The micro blogging site made a thank you note in exactly 140 characters, as if confirming that it will keep its character limit.

Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey has finally laid speculation to rest by saying the social media site will retain its 140-character limit for tweets for the foreseeable future.

The platform that encapsulated the English language in 140 characters has come to celebrate its first decade.

Merely three years after it was launched, Twitter had become the main source of the latest news for a lot of people.

If you call yourself a Twitter addict, let's test your knowledge of the microblogging platform by checking if you're aware of the 10 interesting Twitter facts below!

Monday, March 21 marked 10 years since co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey put out the web start-up's very first tweet. "Since then, every moment of every day, people connect about the things they care about most - all over the world", Twitter posted.

But after a long streak of robust growth that turned it into one of the Internet's hottest companies, Twitter's expansion has slowed dramatically over the past year and a half. According to the micro blogging website, it now has more than 300 million active users - far less when compared with Facebook's 1.5 billion users making it more popular, faster, and the choice of more marketers.

You can join Twitter to celebrate its ten-year anniversary by tweeting with the hashtag #LoveTwitter.

Twitter to retain 140-character limit? The most Retweeted tweet was from Ellen DeGeneres Oscar selfie with 3.3 million Retweets, the most followed person on Twitter is Kary Perry with 84 million followers, and Canadian-born Justin Bieber is mentioned the most with 943 million mentions. In an effort to make more sense of the constant streams of information on the social network, the company has added new features such as the digest-like "Moments" and a recent option to have algorithms choose the order of tweets in users' timelines.

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