Using data published by GlobalWebIndex, Statista created the following chart to rank the current 10 most used smartphone apps across the globe.

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Thanks in large part to social media – Twitter in particular – sports fans are increasingly turning to the Internet rather than TV to watch games and other sports content.

According to data from the Sports Media Consumption Report 2013, by Sporting News Media, Kantar Media, and TV Sport markets, 63% of fans went online for sports content, up from 56% just two years ago.

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UK humor website The Poke produced a hilarious short video parodying social media, and we want to share it with you.

Follow The Poke on Twitter for more “time well wasted” (that’s their motto).

And check out the video, below.

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As Twitter has grown exponentially in terms of membership, usage and popularity, it’s increasingly interesting to look at facts and figures surrounding the micro-blogging platform.

So we’ve put together 50 fun facts about Twitter for your reading enjoyment.

Check out our list, below.

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Here on AllTwitter we love to share interesting facts and figures about Twitter.

For example, 11 accounts are created every second on Twitter and since the dawn of Twitter, there’s been a total of 163 billion tweets.

But how about stats about the Twitter basics? The age range of the average tweeter, which gender tweets more, which country has the highest amount of Twitter users?

Below, check out 14 Twitter statistics you may not know, in infographic form.

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Back in August, we shared some super informative statistics on the world’s most-active-on-Twitter countries and cities.

No surprise that the U.S., whose 141.8 million accounts represent 27.4% of all Twitter users, is the most active country on Twitter.

But the most twitterific city? It’s a little bit of a curveball.

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Digital marketing exec Brian Honigman put together a handy list of 100 Fascinating Social Media Statistics and Figures From 2012 for the Huffington Post.

Obviously, the 20 nuggets of Twitter info were the ones that caught our eye. Take a peek, followed by our commentary:

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Teens love social media. This should come as no surprise to anyone, but new statistics from eMarketer shed some light on just which aspects of social media they prefer. And it looks like Twitter is becoming a favorite… for girls, that is.
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It’s good Twitter strategy to mix things up, but sometimes it’s hard to come up with anything unique to tweet. So most of us default to sharing links to articles we’ve read, along with the headline, and forget about it.

However, this can quickly lead to a mundane, non-engaging Twitter presence if it’s all you do. To combat link boredom, here are seven interesting things you can tweet to your followers that aren’t links to other people’s content.
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New numbers from Experian suggest that American adults are logging in to Twitter.com less often than a year ago, but they’re spending more time on the site during each session. However, there’s more than doom and gloom in the numbers if you dig a little deeper.
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