Twitter is the 4th ranked social media site by its number of monthly users, but it’s a top-ranked site for tech-savvy individuals and business-to-business verticals. Twitter has been a highly-popular social media site for sharing news, snacks, and communicating directly with different communities.

It’s now the “go-to” social media site for crypto users, investors, influencers, and stakeholders. Here are some statistics courtesy of TechJury that help demonstrate why it’s so appealing:

• Twitter (NYSE 🙂 is home to 330 Million monthly active Twitter users
• This is a staggering 762 million tweets per day. That’s roughly 8.817 tweets every second
• A single day’s worth of Tweets would fill a 10 million page book
• From the initial tweet to the millionth, it took three years, two months and one day.

Out of all the general tweets that are sent every day by hundreds of millions, this year there have been hundreds of millions in crypto-related messages. Below are four surprising crypto tweets for 2021.

MicroStrategy becomes the largest corporate shareholder

In regulatory filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in mid-December, enterprise analytics company – Microstrategy (NASDAQ:) – announced that it has purchased 1,434 more Bitcoin (BTC) for $57,477 with a total price tag of $82.4 million. In the follow-up tweet to his 1.9 million followers, Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor, stated that the company’s total holdings now exceed 122,478 coins. That’s surprisingly triple the amount of Bitcoin held by the next closest corporate investor – Tesla (NASDAQ:) – which reportedly has 38,300 Bitcoin on its balance sheet.

Elon Musk Suspends Bitcoin payments to Tesla E-vehicles

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and founder made headlines earlier this year when his company added BTC worth billions to its corporate balance sheet. Musk upped the ante when he stated that Tesla would also start accepting Bitcoin as payment for his company’s electric vehicles to consumers.

Within a month, Musk reversed that digital BTC payment deal for his Tesla e-automobiles – causing massive wreckage to investor portfolios and coin valuations alike as the entire crypto market dropped more than 50% in a matter of days due to this surprising email.

El Salvador announces plans to accept Bitcoin as a Tender

On Saturday, June 5th, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced that this country will be the first in the world to accept Bitcoin as legal tender. President Bukele made the shocking announcement via broadcast to thousands of attendees at this past weekend’s 2021 Bitcoin conference held in Miami, Florida. To initiate the process, he sent a bill to Salvadorian Congress. This was a major milestone in the history of the oldest cryptocurrency. To his 2.5 million Twitter followers, he provided more details on the effort in several tweets.

Facebook changes its name to Meta

Facebook (NASDAQ:) declared plans on Oct. 28 to change its corporate title to Meta. In his founder’s letter, CEO, Mark Zuckerberg said they created the Meta umbrella brand because the Facebook brand had become too restrictive. “Right now our brand is so tightly linked to one product that it can’t possibly represent everything we’re doing today, let alone in the future. Over time, I hope we are seen as a metaverse company, and I want to anchor our work and our identity on what we’re building toward.” This official tweet surprised billions around the world and crypto space.

Again, while there were millions of cryptocurrency tweets issued in 2021, these four messages were some of the most surprising missives shared publicly – with some of the most surprising results that are continuing to ripple across the crypto ecosystem.

Flipside

• The CEO of Coinbase (NASDAQ) called out the SEC. Jack Dorsey announced free BTC transfer globally. Justin Sun resigned from TRON. Jack Dorsey resigned from Twitter. David Marcus resigned from Novi Wallet.

What are the reasons to care?

In 2021, shockwaves were sent across crypto-space by shocking tweets. If you’re a crypto investor, daily Twitter check-ins are a necessity.

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