1 year ago since @GoogleFacts was created

One year ago we created Google Facts - Today is our 1st birthday!
— GoogleFacts (@GoogleFacts) May 21, 2013

After I tweeted the tweet above, Google Facts received hundreds of congrats mentions in just a few minutes. I am very thankful for all of the support of all my fans on Google Facts who have helped my tweets to reach out. I really appreciate each and every retweet I've ever got -- If I could high five all of you individually in a giant line, I definitely would.

Fun Fact: 
We currently have 985,000 followers on the Twitter account. If I would spend just 30 minutes with every one of the followers -- it would take more than 100 years.

Follow Google Facts on Twitter: www.twitter.com/googlefacts

Twitter applications for iPhone

My favorite way of using Twitter is by far Twitter for web -- But an iPhone is not doing that bad actually. This is a short blog post about the two only applications you need to download for Twitter on iPhone.

• The pretty most obvious and most popular application for iPhone is the official Twitter, Inc application. This is a must have. I use this application for most Twitter related things, checking retweets, getting mention and direct messages notifications, and also doing the most basic things like scrolling through timelines.
• The second application that I really love is "Tweetbot" -- It's possible to see the exact number of followers on this application for every account on Twitter. Twitter's own application only shows the exact number up to 9,999 followers - after that, it's 10k followers. Currently for me who have 1,772,307 followers -- The Twitter application only shows 1,7M. Tweetbot shows the exact amount. Also, Tweetbot has another way of scrolling through the timelines -- by only viewing pictures. This makes every timeline look like an Instagram blog actually!

How to change your Twitter Username

It's actually easier than you might think to change your username on Twitter. Actually, I'm a little bit amazed that there are so many people who don't know about this. Actually, all you have to do is to sign in on your Twitter account, go to settings at the top to the right (next to the Twitter search). Now you'll be on the Account settings. Here you can change your basic account, language, Tweet privacy, and location settings. You can also protect your tweets -- making it impossible for Twitter users who aren't following you to read your tweets, and also request your Twitter archive -- getting all your tweets history like a website on your email address.

Anyway, at the top of the settings page, you can change your username. It's easy to find out if Twitter usernames are available or not. When you find a username that you prefer more than the old one, just scroll down, click on "Save changes" and then enter your password and press enter. Done! Your username has now been changed. Now make sure to remind all of your friends and followers that you've changed your username! Also, be prepared that the change might take a few hours for Twitter to update.

Most Tweeted Twitter Account

One of my business partners stated that over 5,000 tweets were a crazy amount of tweets. Therefore I did a research of finding something more extreme. I do not think that 5,000 tweets are a lot. When the number are higher than 50,000 tweets -- That's when you should start worrying about finding something else to do during the days.

Most accounts who have tweeted more than 50,000 tweets are not doing it manually. This account for example, the account with the most tweets on Twitter, has tweeted a lot more than 5,000 tweets. Jesus, it even feels like 50,000 tweets are like a breakfast for this account.

Take a look at this Twitter account and you will never think that anyone has tweeted many tweets anymore.

http://www.twitter.com/Yougakudan_00

Robert Downey Jr is on "Weibo" but not on Twitter

Profile Picture of Robert Downey Jr on Weibo

This is pretty odd, but also a little bit funny. The Iron Man actor, Robert Downey Jr. is not on Twitter, has never been on Twitter, and will most likely never be on Twitter. There have been many parodies and impersonating Twitter accounts pretending to be him, yet still, he has chosen not to spend five minutes to sign up creating a verified profile so far.

I am amazed that he is on Weibo instead 
Weibo is a Chinese microblogging website, and is very similar to Twitter. Weibo is one of the most popular websites in the country China -- About 3/10 of all Chinese people uses Weibo, meaning, almost 400 million registered users since the middle of 2012. Twitter has been up since 2006 - but has only 100 million more registered users than Weibo, yet only 200 million users are active.

Robert D Jr, updated his Weibo with this:

People who know me back in America know that I’m very interested in all things Chinese. - 在美国了解我的人都知道我对与中国有关的一切事物都很感兴趣。

Very funny in my opinion that he is using Weibo, but not Twitter. Here is his Weibo account http://www.weibo.com/RobertDowneyJrCN

First Tweet Ever Made

This is the first tweet ever made -- Or at least the oldest tweet that is not removed -- And was tweeted from one of the co-founders of Twitter. Link here: https://twitter.com/jack/status/20

just setting up my twttr
— Jack Dorsey (@jack) March 21, 2006

The second oldest tweet was from one of the other co-founders, and now the Creative Director of Twitter, Inc. Link here: https://twitter.com/biz/status/21

just setting up my twttr
— Biz Stone (@biz) March 21, 2006

Even the third tweet was from one of the co-founders, Noah Glass. Link here: https://twitter.com/noah/status/22

just setting up my twttr
— noah glass (@noah) March 21, 2006

There were four co-founders of Twitter. The fourth co-founder who maybe didn't care tweeting about "setting up twttr" was Evan Williams -- Or maybe he just removed the tweet in retrospect.

The next four tweets was not from a co-founder, but was also exactly the words "just setting up my twttr" and can be found here:
https://twitter.com/crystal/status/23
https://twitter.com/jeremy/status/24
https://twitter.com/tonystubblebine/status/25
https://twitter.com/Adam/status/26

It's been a few years ago since Twitter was created. And yes, by that time, Twitter was named "twttr." I think that these tweets was a very boring start of Twitter, and it almost feels like the tweets were tweeted automatically. Who knows, perhaps the seven oldest tweets who still are not removed, were not even tweeted manually. I think that's the truth about the start of Twitter.

Schedule Tweets Like a Pro

Scheduling tweets makes life easier. Well, at least that's my opinion since tweeting tweets would take a 16 hours part of my every day life without Twitter scheduling tools. That would definitely kill me slowly. 

Even if my Twitter accounts are basically tweeting most hours of the day, that does not mean that that I am online tweeting LIVE. In some extreme cases, my tweets was scheduled over a half year ago. 

Who should schedule tweets?
Everyone who are tweeting after results and can not be online throughout the day. I am confident that scheduling tweets effectively will drive more traffic to your website, it will maximize your reach and your audience will be more satisfied with having your tweets spread throughout the day instead of getting too much tweets in a short period of time.

So, let's get you started and get to the point. What are the best Twitter scheduling tools and what are their advantages and disadvantages?

• The Bufferapp - To begin with, I almost always start recommending the Bufferapp. This is by far one of the most user-friendly, but advanced, schedulers. It's very easy to put in new tweets, schedule different for every day, see statistics about the impact of your scheduled tweets and also, my favorite, schedule tweets for multiple Twitter accounts with the same login. You can schedule pictures, schedule directly from www.twitter.com and also schedule retweets. You can even have team members by inviting email addresses to help you with providing content for your Twitter accounts - perfect if you want to pay someone for content without having to spend time in uploading it and without giving out your password and risk to get hacked. Bufferapp has a beautiful design, a mobile application, Internet browser applications and you can even schedule social updates for Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media networks. The bad part about it is that it's only free for everyone to try with limitations - you can't schedule as many tweets that you want unless you pay a few bucks for it. 
• The Tricklrapp - Here's another Twitter scheduler that I enjoy a lot. This scheduler is free. The design is user-friendly and very modern. The bad but also good part of this scheduler is that you can only schedule a tweet every 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 120 minutes, 4 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 2 days and 1 week. If you upload a tweet right now and choose that you want it to be scheduled in 30 minutes, it will then be scheduled in 30 minutes from the time you schedule it. The next tweet will be scheduled 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 120 minutes, 4 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 2 days or 1 week after the first tweet, and so on. Very simple to use and I always use Tricklrapp to schedule a tweet fast if I want to schedule outside the schedule of another scheduler. I am confident that you will enjoy this app. You can not handle multiple accounts from the same Tricklrapp login.
• SocialOomph - This is an old Twitter scheduler that still does good actually. The design is not very user-friendly, it's pretty obvious that this site were designed many years ago. If you cannot handle websites with bad designs, this scheduler is not for you. I however recommend this scheduler if you want to bulk upload a lot of tweets at the same time. It's easy to choose how often you want to schedule tweets and all you have to do is to upload a .txt-document with a new tweet for every line, and it's done. I have friends who use this Twitter scheduler to upload 100, or even more than 1,000 tweets at a time -- uploading tweets for 1 month ahead in minutes. You can handle multiple accounts from the same SocialOomph account.
• TwitDrip - This Twitter scheduler was one of my favorite back in the days when it worked perfectly. I am not sure if it's still working since I am using other schedulers for my needs today, but I am confident that this is a good option if you don't want to pay for a scheduler but still want very good results - if it's still working. On TwitDrip, you upload tweets and choose how often you want your tweets to be "dripped out" during time intervals. If you want a tweet to be tweeted for example every 47 minutes during the time 3pm until 7pm, and later on every 58 minutes from 7pm until 9pm and then every 22 minutes from 9pm until 10.36pm -- then TwitDrip is the ultimate option. It's free but yes, as I said, I am not sure if it's still working. Try uploading a few tweets and see if it works, if it does, this is a gold scheduler. You can not handle multiple accounts from the same TwitDrip login.
• Twuffer - This was my favorite scheduler 2 years ago. It's free and very easy to use. Only bad parts about it is that you can only schedule every 5 minutes. For example, 4.10 pm and 4.15 pm and 4.20 pm -- You can not schedule for example 4.11 pm, 4.12pm, 4.13pm and 4.14 pm. Only every 5 minutes. Also, you can not handle multiple accounts from the same Twuffer login.
• Tweetdeck - Is actually not made for scheduling but still worth mentioning. I use Tweetdeck every day, but for other reasons than scheduling. It's basically a Twitter tool to use Twitter more effective. Why I am still mentioning it as a scheduler is because I believe that it's a good way to schedule a few tweets once in a while if you also love using Tweetdeck every day. If you want to schedule more than a few tweets, it will just get complicated since it's taking too long time to choose the date, the time and the Twitter account to schedule (maybe 10 seconds total, but scheduling tweets effective should not take 10 seconds). However, if you want to schedule 1 or 2 or even 3 tweets, Tweetdeck is awesome. This is the Twitter tool I am using to schedule tweets at a specific date and time for months ahead. You can handle multiple accounts from the same TweetDeck account.

Now you know the basics and the more advanced advantages of powerful Twitter scheduling tools. Thank you!

Anton Perlkvist, The Twitter Entrepreneur

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