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10 Surprising New Twitter Stats to Help You Reach More Followers. Since social media is changing so often.

10 Surprising New Twitter Stats to Help You Reach More Followers

It can be really hard to keep up with stats and trends that affect how you use it. I quite often forget the facts that I've read, or I use Twitter based on stats that are outdated now. In fact, when I recently looked at some of the latest social media statistics, it hit me that the fastest growing demographic on Twitter is is the 55-64 year age bracket. And that's just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's changed.

In case you're in the same boat with me, I gathered up some really interesting Twitter stats that can help you improve the way you reach your followers. 1. I guess not many people know about this one, because only 19 percent of brands tweet on the weekends. Social media scientist Dan Zarrella also found in one of his Twitter experiments that click-through rates were higher on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. 2. Just like on Facebook, photos are more engaging for Twitter users. Did you know you can Buffer images right from the web? 3. Kostas Kiriakakis. Lobby of Learner. As a serial entrepreneur, I learned a lot of lessons from things that didn’t work.

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These lessons later on shaped my ideas on what would be needed to build a successful startup company. When I became a VC, I realized that these same lessons could be applied to helping evaluate the many businesses that I… Read the rest In May this year, 19 year old Diwank Singh Tomer joined 19 other young and exceptional youngsters from around the world to become a Thiel Fellow. The Thiel foundation’s fellowship comes with a $100,000 cheque and access to some of the greatest mentors of our times not least of whom is the legendary Peter Thiel… Read the rest Introduction This post aims to help startup CEOs optimize their funding strategy by examining how investors value startups, and explaining how to avoid the common cash management pitfalls. Read the rest Read the rest Read the rest Read the rest Read the rest One Research done by Raygain Technology Pvt Ltd Total market size is 17.5 USD Billion by 2012 .

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Android Developers Blog. A Deadly Triangle: Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The Indian-Pakistani Conflict Over Afghanistan 2 The February 2010 attack on the Indian guest houses was a rare overt act of hostility in the long covert struggle India and Pakistan have been waging on and off for more than sixty years over their competing influence in Afghanistan.

A Deadly Triangle: Afghanistan, Pakistan and India

But it was not the only such act. In fact it was the third in less than three years. Fifteen months before, on October 8, 2009, a massive car bomb had been set off outside the Indian embassy in Kabul killing 17 people and wounding 63. Most of the dead were ordinary Afghans caught walking near the target. The hostility between India and Pakistan lies at the heart of the current war in Afghanistan. The hostility between India and Pakistan lies at the heart of the current war in Afghanistan. Although Karzai himself is a Pashtun, many of his fellow tribesmen view his presence as mere window-dressing for a U.S. There is also an age-old Pashtun-on-Pashtun element to the conflict. July 1999: U.S.