Twitter

1. Twitter as a concept, was developed by Nazi scientists towards the end of the Second World War, so the führer could send moral boosting messages to the brave troops at battle.

2. Current CEO and owner of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, actually won the now successful social media company in a poker game with Nick Hewer in 1997. Apprentice star Hewer had acquired it a week earlier from gypsies who could not cover their bets after Hewer had a big win at the dog fights.

3. Tweets are famously only 140 characters long, but have you ever wondered why? Well it may just be a coincidence, but in all 242 episodes of 'Last of the Summer Wine' exactly 140 characters appear.

4. Twitter was discovered by antiques boffin Jonty Hearnden. He found it in an elderly ladies loft in an early episode of 'Cash in the Attic'. Twitter was unsold at auction, but so taken was Jonty by the social media phenomenon, that he offered a fiver for it and took it home.

5. Twitters hashtag function is brill for anyone looking for Tweets on certain topics. But did you ever wonder what hashtag actually means? Well it comes from the German word häschtagën, which is deeply racist.

6. In spring 2012 Arkansas resident Guthrie P Cupidson was the first man to tweet his own suicide note, before tragically overdosing on a cocktail of Cilitbang and Paracetamol. He only had 3 followers, all of whom were intermittent Twitter users at best.

7. Twitter can be used to spread positive messages and raise awareness for important issues, galvanising public opinion and embracing a free exchange of ideas. But for most people its just a way to talk to girls.

8. In 2013 Her Royal Highness the Queen opened a Twitter account, however it was shut down 2 weeks later as her Majesties frequent antisemitic messages breached the conduct code of the social media giant.

9. Every day an average of 212 billion Tweets are Twittered. If every Tweet was stacked on top of each other it would be as tall as a double decker bus!

10. ITV bosses were heavily criticised by womens right campaigners for their controversial 2010 game show 'Tweet Us Ya Tits'. The show encouraged female viewers to tweet pictures of their boobs with the hashtag #capitalknockers. The reason for the criticism was that hosts Ant and Dec owned Twitter and were getting a pound for every top bollock pic sent in, and often a girl with champion nawks had already been selected to win beforehand.