Who would take home the 2013 Oscars if the winners were determined wholly by social media?

Well, according to Twitter and Facebook, and looking at nominees ranked by shares, Hugh Jackman would win Best Actor for Les Miserables and Jennifer Lawrence would bag Best Actress for her role in Silver Linings Playbook, which would also be crowned Best Picture.

However, if social media users really had their way, the winners of choice would be very different indeed… and haven’t even been nominated at all.

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Twitter was born mobile. Back in July 2006 when co-founder Jack Dorsey first envisioned and launched the service, Twitter was known as “twttr”, a name inspired by both Flickr and the five-character length of U.S. SMS short codes, and the site made heavy emphasis on the use of sending messages via text.

Fast-forward to the heady days of 2013, and Twitter is, well, everywhere, and a huge part of that growth has been because of the micro-blogging social network’s continuing presence in the mobile space. Indeed, some 80 percent of the 10 million Twitter users in the United Kingdom now access the platform via their mobile device, and two-thirds (67 percent) of these mobile users follow brands on Twitter.

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Social media has changed the retail business.

And with many companies facing serious threats from the likes of Amazon and other major online retailers, this helping hand couldn’t have arrived any sooner. Thanks to platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, retail brands of all shapes and sizes can build highly-engaged audiences that can help them raise awareness, boost website footfall and drive sales.

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Did you know that Cristiano Ronaldo is the most followed footballer on Twitter, with over 15 million fans?

Football – or soccer, if you’re stateside – is the most popular sport on the planet, and players and teams from all around the world use the micro-blogging social network to engage with and inform fans… sometimes with very mixed results.

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Did you make any resolutions for 2013?

If so, you’re far from alone. The anticipation of a New Year and a fresh start encourages millions and millions of people to decide to make at least one big change in their life.

And, according to Twitter, our biggest goals for this year include finding (or giving) love, hitting the gym and quitting drinking.

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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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Whichever way you want to look at it, 2012 was a very big year.

The London Olympics, U.S. president election, Hurricane Sandy, Euro 2012 and the Super Bowl dominated news reportage worldwide. Of course, these events also trended globally on Twitter, which has quickly positioned itself as the online water cooler.

So what else were we talking about in 2012?

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A new study has revealed that many of the biggest brands in the U.S., including McDonalds, Starbucks, Coca Cola and Visa, are not providing a high standard of customer support on Twitter, either being slow to reply to enquiries or, in some high-profile cases, not responding at all.

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If you’re a Twitter.com regular, you’re probably used to navigating the site using your mouse or trackpad. You know, much in the same way you use every other website.

But did you know that Twitter.com has a range of keyboard shortcuts that, once memorised and mastered, can have you zipping around the micro-blogging social network like a pro?

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Twitter has emerged as the key driver behind the relatively new phenomenon of social television, reveals a new study from NM Incite and Nielsen.

During June 2012, one third of active Twitter users tweeted about TV-related content – up 27 percent from January – and almost a quarter of people aged 18-24 use social media to comment on what they like or dislike about a storyline whilst watching TV.

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