As of December 2022, X/Twitter's audience accounted for over 368 million monthly active users worldwide. This figure was projected to decrease to approximately 335 million by 2024, a decline of around five percent compared to 2022.

The US has historically been the target country for Twitter since its launch in 2006. This is the full breakdown of Twitter users by country.

Social network X/Twitter is particularly popular in the United States, and as of April 2024, the microblogging service had an audience reach of 106.23 million users in the country. Japan and the India were ranked second and third with more than 69 million and 25 million users respectively. Global Twitter usage As of the second quarter of 2021, X/Twitter had 206 million monetizable daily active users worldwide. The most-followed Twitter accounts include figures such as Elon Musk, Justin Bieber and former U.S. president Barack Obama. X/Twitter and politics X/Twitter has become an increasingly relevant tool in domestic and international politics. The platform has become a way to promote policies and interact with citizens and other officials, and most world leaders and foreign ministries have an official Twitter account. Former U.S. president Donald Trump used to be a prolific Twitter user before the platform permanently suspended his account in January 2021. During an August 2018 survey, 61 percent of respondents stated that Trump's use of Twitter as President of the United States was inappropriate.

The number of Twitter users in France was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 0.8 million users (+8.18 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Twitter user base is estimated to reach 10.59 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of Twitter users of was continuously increasing over the past years.User figures, shown here regarding the platform twitter, have been estimated by taking into account company filings or press material, secondary research, app downloads and traffic data. They refer to the average monthly active users over the period.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of Twitter users in countries like Luxembourg and Netherlands.

The number of Twitter users in the United States was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 4.3 million users (+5.32 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Twitter user base is estimated to reach 85.08 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of Twitter users of was continuously increasing over the past years.User figures, shown here regarding the platform twitter, have been estimated by taking into account company filings or press material, secondary research, app downloads and traffic data. They refer to the average monthly active users over the period.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of Twitter users in countries like Canada and Mexico.

How many people use X/Twitter?

As of the first quarter of 2019, X/Twitter averaged 330 million monthly active users, a decline from its all-time high of 336 MAU in the first quarter of 2018. As of the first quarter of 2019, the company switched its user reporting metric to monetizable daily active users (mDAU).

X/Twitter

X/Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service, enabling registered users to read and post short messages called tweets. X/Twitter messages are limited to 280 characters and users are also able to upload photos or short videos. Tweets are posted to a publicly available profile or can be sent as direct messages to other users.

Part of the social platform’s appeal is the ability of users to follow any other user with a public profile, enabling users to interact with celebrities who regularly post on the social media site. Currently, the most-followed person on Twitter is singer Katy Perry with more than 107 million followers. Twitter has also become an important communications channel for governments and heads of state – U.S. President Donald Trump was the most-followed world leader on Twitter, followed by Pope Francis and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Despite the widespread usage among the rich and famous, the decline in active users has not been impressing investors as the platform is largely reliant on delivering advertising to users in order to generate revenues. Twitter’s company revenue in 2018 amounted to three billion U.S. dollars, up from 2.44 billion in the preceding fiscal year. Twitter was only recently able to report a positive annual result for the first time, when the company generated 1.2 billion U.S. dollars in net income in 2018.

The global number of Twitter users in was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 74.3 million users (+17.32 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Twitter user base is estimated to reach 503.42 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of Twitter users of was continuously increasing over the past years.User figures, shown here regarding the platform twitter, have been estimated by taking into account company filings or press material, secondary research, app downloads and traffic data. They refer to the average monthly active users over the period.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of Twitter users in countries like South America and the Americas.

The average Twitter user spends 5.1 hours per month on the platform.

The number of Twitter users in the United Kingdom was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 0.9 million users (+5.1 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Twitter user base is estimated to reach 18.55 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of Twitter users of was continuously increasing over the past years.User figures, shown here regarding the platform twitter, have been estimated by taking into account company filings or press material, secondary research, app downloads and traffic data. They refer to the average monthly active users over the period.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

This is a longitudinal Twitter dataset of 143K users during the period 2017-2021. The following is the detail of all the files:

• SenTopX_userIDs.txt: contains user IDs of 143K Twitter users.
• userIDs_tweetIDs.zip: contains Tweet IDs of users, the name of the file is the user ID and the file contains the list of all the tweet IDs.
• users_16_perspective_toxicity_scores.csv contains user IDs and 16 median Perspective API scores, the vector is shared as mean, median, and Gini Index of scores calculated over all tweets of a user.
• LDAvis_top30_words_for_extracted_topics.csv contains the top 30 most relevant words extracted from each topic extracted by tweet-level topic modeling using the BERTweet topic model.
• topic_modelling_statistics_per_user.csv contains important and relevant statistics related to topic modeling results:

  • 1. user: This column represents the identifier for the user. Each row in the CSV corresponds to a specific user, and this column helps to track and differentiate between the users.

    2. avg_topic_probability: This column contains the average probability of the topics for each user calculated across all of the tweets in order to compare users in a meaningful way. It represents the average likelihood that a particular user discusses various topics over the observed period.

    3. maximum_topic_avg: This column holds the value of the highest average probability among all topics for each user. It indicates the topic that the user most frequently discusses, on average.

    4. index_max_avg_topic_probability_200: This column specifies the index or identifier of the topic with the highest average probability out of 200 possible topics. It shows which topic (out of 200) the user discusses the most.

    5. global_avg: This column includes the global average probability of topics across all users. It provides a baseline or overall average topic probability that can be used for comparative purposes.

    6. max_global_avg: This column contains the maximum global average probability across all topics for all users. It identifies the most discussed topic across the entire user base.

    7. index_max_global_avg: This column shows the index or identifier of the topic with the highest global average probability. It indicates which topic (out of 200) is the most popular across all users.

    8. entropy_200_topic: This column represents the entropy of the topics for each user, calculated over 200 topics. Entropy measures the diversity or unpredictability in the user's discussion of topics, with higher entropy indicating more varied topic discussion.

    In summary, these columns are used to analyze the topic engagement and preferences of users on a platform, highlighting the most frequently discussed topics, the variability in topic discussions, and how individual user behavior compares to overall trends.

These Twitter user statistics will give you the complete story of where Twitter is at today and what the future looks like for the social media company.

Twitter Friends and hashtags

Context

This datasets is an extract of a wider database aimed at collecting Twitter user's friends (other accound one follows). The global goal is to study user's interest thru who they follow and connection to the hashtag they've used.

Content

It's a list of Twitter user's informations. In the JSON format one twitter user is stored in one object of this more that 40.000 objects list. Each object holds :

• avatar : URL to the profile picture

• followerCount : the number of followers of this user

• friendsCount : the number of people following this user.

• friendName : stores the @name (without the '@') of the user (beware this name can be changed by the user)

• id : user ID, this number can not change (you can retrieve screen name with this service : https://tweeterid.com/)

• friends : the list of IDs the user follows (data stored is IDs of users followed by this user)

• lang : the language declared by the user (in this dataset there is only "en" (english))

• lastSeen : the time stamp of the date when this user have post his last tweet.

• tags : the hashtags (whith or without #) used by the user. It's the "trending topic" the user tweeted about.

• tweetID : Id of the last tweet posted by this user.

You also have the CSV format which uses the same naming convention.

These users are selected because they tweeted on Twitter trending topics, I've selected users that have at least 100 followers and following at least 100 other account (in order to filter out spam and non-informative/empty accounts).

Acknowledgements

This data set is build by Hubert Wassner (me) using the Twitter public API. More data can be obtained on request (hubert.wassner AT gmail.com), at this time I've collected over 5 milions in different languages. Some more information can be found here (in french only) : http://wassner.blogspot.fr/2016/06/recuperer-des-profils-twitter-par.html

Past Research

No public research have been done (until now) on this dataset. I made a private application which is described here : http://wassner.blogspot.fr/2016/09/twitter-profiling.html (in French) which uses the full dataset (Millions of full profiles).

Inspiration

On can analyse a lot of stuff with this datasets :

• stats about followers & followings
• manyfold learning or unsupervised learning from friend list
• hashtag prediction from friend list

Contact

Feel free to ask any question (or help request) via Twitter : @hwassner

Enjoy! ;)

Utilize our Twitter dataset for diverse applications to enrich business strategies and market insights. Analyzing this dataset provides a comprehensive understanding of social media trends, empowering organizations to refine their communication and marketing strategies. Access the entire dataset or customize a subset to fit your needs. Popular use cases include market research to identify trending topics and hashtags, AI training by reviewing factors such as tweet content, retweets, and user interactions for predictive analytics, and trend forecasting by examining correlations between specific themes and user engagement to uncover emerging social media preferences.

Advertising makes up 89% of its total revenue and data licensing makes up about 11%.

One of the biggest advantages of Twitter is the speed at which information can be passed around. People use Twitter primarily to get news and for entertainment. This is the breakdown of why people use Twitter today.

This is the breakdown of Twitter users by age group.

The number of Twitter users in Mexico was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 3.1 million users (+23.7 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Twitter user base is estimated to reach 16.21 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of Twitter users of was continuously increasing over the past years.User figures, shown here regarding the platform twitter, have been estimated by taking into account company filings or press material, secondary research, app downloads and traffic data. They refer to the average monthly active users over the period.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of Twitter users in countries like Canada and United States.

General Description

This dataset comprises 4,038 tweets in Spanish, related to discussions about artificial intelligence (AI), and was created and utilized in the publication "Enhancing Sentiment Analysis on Social Media: Integrating Text and Metadata for Refined Insights," (10.1109/IE61493.2024.10599899) presented at the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Environments. It is designed to support research on public perception, sentiment, and engagement with AI topics on social media from a Spanish-speaking perspective. Each entry includes detailed annotations covering sentiment analysis, user engagement metrics, and user profile characteristics, among others.

Data Collection Method

Tweets were gathered through the Twitter API v1.1 by targeting keywords and hashtags associated with artificial intelligence, focusing specifically on content in Spanish. The dataset captures a wide array of discussions, offering a holistic view of the Spanish-speaking public's sentiment towards AI.

Dataset Content

ID: A unique identifier for each tweet.

text: The textual content of the tweet. It is a string with a maximum allowed length of 280 characters.

polarity: The tweet's sentiment polarity (e.g., Positive, Negative, Neutral).

favorite_count: Indicates how many times the tweet has been liked by Twitter users. It is a non-negative integer.

retweet_count: The number of times this tweet has been retweeted. It is a non-negative integer.

user_verified: When true, indicates that the user has a verified account, which helps the public recognize the authenticity of accounts of public interest. It is a boolean data type with two allowed values: True or False.

user_default_profile: When true, indicates that the user has not altered the theme or background of their user profile. It is a boolean data type with two allowed values: True or False.

user_has_extended_profile: When true, indicates that the user has an extended profile. An extended profile on Twitter allows users to provide more detailed information about themselves, such as an extended biography, a header image, details about their location, website, and other additional data. It is a boolean data type with two allowed values: True or False.

user_followers_count: The current number of followers the account has. It is a non-negative integer.

user_friends_count: The number of users that the account is following. It is a non-negative integer.

user_favourites_count: The number of tweets this user has liked since the account was created. It is a non-negative integer.

user_statuses_count: The number of tweets (including retweets) posted by the user. It is a non-negative integer.

user_protected: When true, indicates that this user has chosen to protect their tweets, meaning their tweets are not publicly visible without their permission. It is a boolean data type with two allowed values: True or False.

user_is_translator: When true, indicates that the user posting the tweet is a verified translator on Twitter. This means they have been recognized and validated by the platform as translators of content in different languages. It is a boolean data type with two allowed values: True or False.

Cite as

Guerrero-Contreras, G., Balderas-Díaz, S., Serrano-Fernández, A., & Muñoz, A. (2024, June). Enhancing Sentiment Analysis on Social Media: Integrating Text and Metadata for Refined Insights. In 2024 International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE) (pp. 62-69). IEEE.

Potential Use Cases

This dataset is aimed at academic researchers and practitioners with interests in:

Sentiment analysis and natural language processing (NLP) with a focus on AI discussions in the Spanish language.

Social media analysis on public engagement and perception of artificial intelligence among Spanish speakers.

Exploring correlations between user engagement metrics and sentiment in discussions about AI.

Data Format and File Type

The dataset is provided in CSV format, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of data analysis tools and programming environments.

License

The dataset is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, permitting sharing, copying, distribution, transmission, and adaptation of the work for any purpose, including commercial, provided proper attribution is given.

We present GeoCoV19, a large-scale Twitter dataset related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The dataset has been collected over a period of 90 days from February 1 to May 1, 2020 and consists of more than 524 million multilingual tweets. As the geolocation information is essential for many tasks such as disease tracking and surveillance, we employed a gazetteer-based approach to extract toponyms from user location and tweet content to derive their geolocation information using the Nominatim (Open Street Maps) data at different geolocation granularity levels. In terms of geographical coverage, the dataset spans over 218 countries and 47K cities in the world. The tweets in the dataset are from more than 43 million Twitter users, including around 209K verified accounts. These users posted tweets in 62 different languages.

This dataset comprises a set of Twitter accounts in Singapore that are used for social bot profiling research conducted by the Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC) at Singapore Management University (SMU). Here a bot is defined as a Twitter account that generates contents and/or interacts with other users automatically (at least according to human judgment). In this research, Twitter bots have been categorized into three major types:

Broadcast bot. This bot aims at disseminating information to general audience by providing, e.g., benign links to news, blogs or sites. Such bot is often managed by an organization or a group of people (e.g., bloggers). Consumption bot. The main purpose of this bot is to aggregate contents from various sources and/or provide update services (e.g., horoscope reading, weather update) for personal consumption or use. Spam bot. This type of bots posts malicious contents (e.g., to trick people by hijacking certain account or redirecting them to malicious sites), or promotes harmless but invalid/irrelevant contents aggressively.

This categorization is general enough to cater for new, emerging types of bot (e.g., chatbots can be viewed as a special type of broadcast bots). The dataset was collected from 1 January to 30 April 2014 via the Twitter REST and streaming APIs. Starting from popular seed users (i.e., users having many followers), their follow, retweet, and user mention links were crawled. The data collection proceeds by adding those followers/followees, retweet sources, and mentioned users who state Singapore in their profile location. Using this procedure, a total of 159,724 accounts have been collected. To identify bots, the first step is to check active accounts who tweeted at least 15 times within the month of April 2014. These accounts were then manually checked and labelled, of which 589 bots were found. As many more human users are expected in the Twitter population, the remaining accounts were randomly sampled and manually checked. With this, 1,024 human accounts were identified. In total, this results in 1,613 labelled accounts. Related Publication: R. J. Oentaryo, A. Murdopo, P. K. Prasetyo, and E.-P. Lim. (2016). On profiling bots in social media. Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo’16), 92-109. Bellevue, WA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47880-7_6