The Year In Tweets
ABC News, Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:56 AM
The latest year-end roundup comes from Twitter, which says it now has 140 million active users (yes, same as the number of characters a tweet can include), all of whom send 1 billion tweets every
two and a half days. Highlights, as reported by ABCNews.com, included the most “retweeted” tweet of the year -- President Obama’s election night note: “Four more years.”
-- and Pope Benedict XVI getting his own Twitter handle.
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