Between July and December 2011, the number of followers of the main Twitter account (in English) of the United Nations increased by over 250,000 followers, reaching a total of more than 640,000 followers.
The sales and marketing presence of the United Nations on the social media platforms provided by Facebook and Twitter continued to grow: close to 3,500 users follow the Organization on Facebook and 15,500 users follow it on Twitter.
The Tribunal’s Twitter account has continued to grow in popularity, adding hundreds of additional followers, and its YouTube channel remains popular, with over 600,000 views per year.
Gaga has called the Indian alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra a "true inspiration", and has also quoted Indian leader Osho's book Creativity on Twitter.
It also stated that five percent of users accounted for seventy-five percent of all activity, and that New York City has more Twitter users than other cities.
In mid-September, Aoyagi Bisen posted a video to her Twitter account that showed how to write what is widely regarded to be one of the most obscure–and complex–Chinese characters: biang, used exclusively when writing “biangbiang noodles” in Mandarin.
Twitter enabled the Department to reach at least 1.2 million people, with followers joining from over 50 countries, including many developing countries.
Issues over jurisdiction arise, because Twitter has no offices nor employees within France, so it is unclear how a French court could sanction Twitter.
Citra Award-winning actress Laura Basuki was cast in the main role of Hanum; Kuntz decided to make the character a journalist because he found the career "sexy because they tell everything on Twitter except stuff about their personal lives".
Now in China, you have the "great firewall," as it's well-known, that blocks Facebook and Twitter and now Google+ and many of the other overseas websites.