No.10 FIRST PERSON TO JOIN TWITTER
秘密十：第一個加入Twitter的人
Hey! was it a He or She? What did he/she do on twitter after joining twitter? Can't guess !..never mind because I am going to divulgeto you folks the first ever person to set foot, not on the moon but Twitter and he was JACK DORSEY(founder) and he was also the first one to send twitter message on his profile. Luck man he is, isn't he? He was the first person to be the part of the world's famous social organization nowadays.
第一個注冊Twitter的人是杰克·多西（也就是Twitter的創(chuàng)始人），他也是第一個在他個人主頁上發(fā)推文的人。
No.9 INITIAL INCOME OF TWITTER AS A COMPANY
秘密九：Twitter最初的收入
Twitter was founded in 2006 and as you all know that it is nowadays a very well-reputedand marvelous social networking package, so what do you think its initial revenuewill be? Yeah I know that guessing such a behemoth amount will not be an easy task to do for you. Ok let me tell you this and the answer to this mystery is that for that first three years of its operations Twitter generated a total revenue of $1,000,000,000. Wait! how about removing that '1' before those zeroes. Yup here you go guys. You got it right and Twitter made not even a single penny during the first three years of its operations.
Twitter在2006年創(chuàng)建，作為世界上知名的網(wǎng)站，你知道它最初的收入是多少嗎？答案是：在Twitter成立的前三年里面他們的收入是10億美元！哦不，其實，是要把前面的“1”去掉，Twitter在前三年里沒有一分收入。
No.8 FREQUENCY OF TWEETS IN TWITTER
秘密八：Twitter上推文的更新量是多少？
How many times can you possibly blink your eye in a second? Well to reflect something or some event as to occur very fast or rapidly we use the term "in a blink of an eye". May be it is 5 times a second or to quote it more optimistically let us take it to be 7 times a second. But can you just imagine the number of Tweets per second. Nah! it is not even near to your thinking as the average tweets per second are as many as 750 tweets per second. Well I guess we have got something to replace our old-used phrase and the new one should be "in a blink of a tweet".
你多久眨一次眼睛？描述一件事很快發(fā)生時，我們可以用“一眨眼的功夫”（in a blink of an eye）。讓我們樂觀地估計一下吧，你一秒最多眨7次眼睛，但是這個數(shù)字遠遠達不到Twitter的新信息更新量。推文的更新速度是：750條/秒！或許我們應該改一改那個形容事情發(fā)生很快的表達，改成“一條推文閃出的功夫”（in a blink of a tweet）。
No.7 TWEETS THAT CONSTITUTE MOST OF THE OVERALL PERCENTAGE OF TWEETS
秘密七：大多數(shù)推文都是什么內(nèi)容？
Man love to interact and finds for himself excuses to talk to others. The category of maximum number of tweets are conspicuous of this statement. What can it be? Any major event or something very ordinary to our lives. It is just "I am having lunch" and this tweet constitute over 40% of total tweets.
人們喜歡互動，并且喜歡找各種理由和別人交談。那些生活中最常見的消息和內(nèi)容都可以作為理由。有數(shù)據(jù)顯示，40%的推文是“我正在吃午飯”。
No.6 ORIGINAL NAME OF TWITTER
秘密六：Twitter最早的名字
The name being used nowadays was not the original name for this social networking program. But it did resemble with the current name “TWITTER”. It was “TWTTR”. It was inspiredby the fact the short codes being used in America are 5 characters.
Twitter最早并不叫Twitter，而是叫“TWTTR”，它的靈感來源于美國使用的短碼（電話中使用）是五個字符。
No.5 THE FIRST DAY WHEN TWITTER WAS BEING RUN
秘密五：Twitter第一天開放的日子
Definitely, the first day of twitter was indeed linked to some special occasion of some special person of the organization. The Beta test version of Twitter was launched on the birthday of the CEO Even Williams.
Twitter第一天開放的日子是和一些特殊人的特殊紀念日有關系。測試版的Twitter是在Twitter的CEO埃文·威廉姆斯生日那天開始運營的。
No.4 MEN OR WOMEN
秘密四：上Twitter的是男性多還是女性多？
Men are more socializing than women. Women tend to talk to more in contrast to most men, although some men do talk a lot. Which segment of the society can it possibly be? Well guys happy or not they are the talkative ones. Yes, women constitute over 55% of the Twitter users where men lies in an area of 45%.
男性比女性更善于社交，而女性說得更多（盡管有些男性說的也不少）。事實證明，這條規(guī)律在Twitter上也適用。Twitter上有55%的用戶是女性。
No.3 SOURCE OF TRAFFIC COMING TO TWITTER
秘密三：訪問Twitter的途徑
You will be very astonished to know that not most of the traffic coming to twitter is from twitter.com rather it is from third party applications like TweetDeck, Twitterrific and Tweetie etc. These third party applications compriseover 75% of the incoming traffic to twitter.
大部分訪問Twitter的途徑不是直接訪問twitter.com，而是使用第三方軟件：例如TweetDeck、Twitterrific、Tweetie等。這些訪問方式占到了總訪問量的75%。
No.2 IF TWITTER WERE A COUNTRY
秘密二：如果Twitter是一個國家
Just imagine of the gigantic size of the Twitter organization with over more than 105,779,710 registered users. Statistics claim that if Twitter were a country then it would be 12th largest population country. It is amazing!
想象一下，Twitter有105,779,710位注冊用戶！有統(tǒng)計數(shù)據(jù)指出，如果Twitter是一個國家的話，那將是世界上人口排名第12大的國家！
No.1. SOCIAL CLASS USING TWITTER
秘密一：使用Twitter的社會階層
Rich people have got many other tasks to keep them riveted. They can go surfing, dining out most of the week days and do other expensive enjoyments to fulfill their social needs. But you will be amazed to learn that according to authentic sources, 30% of households of each family is more than $100,000.
富人可以有很多其他方式來消遣，比如，沖浪，外出吃飯等其他有錢人消費的方式。但是有可靠數(shù)據(jù)顯示，上Twitter中30%的家庭收入超過10萬美元。
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（來源：滬江英語 編輯：崔旭燕）
