As of August 2023, X (formerly Twitter) CEO Elon Musk was the most followed person on the platform, with little over 140 million followers. Additionally, former U.S. President Barack Obama amassed 132 million followers on the micro-blogging service. In April 2023, Musk changed Twitter's legal name to X Corp.
Celebrities and Twitter
Founded in 2006 as Twitter, X is an online social networking and microblogging service that allows users to post text-based status updates and messages of up to 280 characters in length. As of the fourth quarter of 2020, X had 192 million monetizable daily active users (mDAU) worldwide.
X provides a near-instant access channel to celebrities. The majority of the top ten most-followed X accounts are entertainers who use the medium to communicate with fans, spread relevant news regarding their work or work on their public image. The near-instant gratification through a stream of direct updates from celebrities or personalities as well as the feeling of belonging to a particular group of fans is a popular reason for social media users to use X. In order to establish authenticity of identity on X, accounts of people from high-interest areas such as music, fashion, entertainment, politics, media, business or other areas as well as individuals at high risk of impersonation are verified by X. The verification badge symbolizes that the account is maintained by a legitimate source.
Major sporting events and industry award shows such as the Super Bowl, the Grammy Awards or Academy Awards generate lots of online buzz on X. The online discussion allows users to participate in the success of celebrities who often post behind-the-scenes photo tweets or commentaries. On-set or in-concert tweets are further methods of celebrities enhancing their appeal, and level of fan interaction.
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With over 611 million monthly active users, building a huge Twitter following is not an easy task. These are the top 25 accounts with the most followers on Twitter right now.
As of January 2021, Caroline Wozniacki, a Danish professional tennis player, had the most followed Twitter account in Denmark with over ************* followers. A Danish League of Legends player Søren Bjerg, known by his in-game name Bjergsen, ranked second with over *********** followers. Tenth on the list was Kasper Schmiechel, followed by nearly *** thousand people.
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Twitter is ranked as the 12h most popular social media site in the world. The platform currently has 611 million active monthly users.
The Finnish racing driver Valtteri Bottas ranked first in the most popular Twitter accounts in Finland as of *************, with over *** thousand followers on the platform. He was followed by Anne-Maria Yritys (@annemariayritys), who had nearly ***** thousand followers.
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The US has the largest number of Twitter users with over a 100 million users. They account for about 16.7% of all Twitter users worldwide.
In 2020, Donald Trump (@realdonaldtrump), was ranked as the most influential Twitter user worldwide. Other top-tweeters included Narendra Modi (@narendramodi), Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) and Elon Musk (@elonmusk). Influencers were ranked on the level of genuine engagement users created within the year. The amount of followers, retweets, replies, and the more influential the people users engaged with all together determined the score.
Social network X/Twitter is particularly popular in the United States, and as of February 2025, the microblogging service had an audience reach of 103.9 million users in the country. Japan and the India were ranked second and third with more than 70 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.
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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.
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These are the key Twitter user statistics that you need to know.
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This is the breakdown of Twitter users by age group.
The pornographic star Vicky Vette had the most followed Twitter account in Norway as of ************. Over *** thousand individuals followed her that year. Second in the ranking was the politician and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, with ***** thousand followers. Third was the Norwegian musician Kygo, who had nearly *** thousand followers on Twitter. A survey conducted during the ********************* found that most respondents (** percent) reported that the leading purpose of Twitter usage was entertainment.
How often do Norwegians use Twitter?
Another survey from 2019 to 2012 investigated how often Norwegians used Twitter over the year. Overall, the frequency rates were steady. As of the *********************, ** percent of the respondents used the platform monthly or less often, while ***** percent reported to have never used it. The share of Norwegians who never used Twitter was lowest in the *********************, when it was only **** percent. Twitter users’ ages
Twitter was most popular among Norwegians of ages between ** and ** in 2020. To be precise, ** percent of individuals of that age group used the platform. The respondents who were 60 years old or older, used Twitter the least - only ** percent of them.
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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.
The football player Zlatan Ibrahimović, had the most followed account on Twitter in Sweden as of December 2020. In fact, roughly *** million people followed him on the platform, which was way ahead of the environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who ranked second with roughly *** million followers. The Swedish DJ and record producer, Alesso, ranked third, with nearly *** million followers. Overall, musicians had a strong presence in the ranking list, which includes Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Axwell, Zara Larsson, and Sebastian Ingrosso.
Twitter in Sweden
The share of Twitter users in Sweden increased significantly. While eight percent of the interviewed Swedes used the platform in 2011, ** percent did in 2019. The usage penetration peaked in 2017, when ** percent of the respondents were on the platform. Another survey took place in Sweden in 2019, regarding the purposes of using Twitter. It was discovered that ** percent of the respondents used it for news and ** percent used it for entertainment.
Twitter ranked sixth
As of 2019, ** percent of the internet users interviewed in Sweden reported to be using Twitter. Thus, it ranked sixth among other social media platforms. Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat led the ranking that year. Overall, the share of individuals who participated in social networks increased over time. ** percent of the Swedes created profiles and posted messages in 2011 and ** percent in 2019.
In 2022, singer Mexican-Spanish singer Belinda Peregrín, simply known as Belinda, was Spain's most popular female account on Twitter in Spain, with more than 6.8 million followers. Repeating her success on Instagram and Twitter, singer Rosalía ranked second on the micro-blogging platform in the country, with more than 4.3 million followers. While football has dominated Twitter's sphere in Spain, the most popular female handles on the platform belonged to women related to communication, culture, and content creation activities, with more variety when compared to the male-dominated sphere of the most followed accounts.
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The platform is male-dominated with 68.1% of all Twitter users being male. Just 31.9% of Twitter users are female.
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A list of the most popular (top 100 by followers) Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok users. NB! For YouTube the followers are subscribers and the posts are videos.
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Twitter User Dataset
This dataset was obtained by crawling Twitter's REST API using the Python library Tweepy 3. The dataset comprises tweets from the 20 most popular Twitter users based on the number of followers, with retweets excluded. These accounts include public figures such as Katy Perry and Barack Obama, platforms like YouTube and Instagram, and television channels such as CNN Breaking News and The Ellen Show. The dataset presents a diverse collection of tweets, ranging from… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/haydenbanz/Tweets_Dataset.
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Advertising makes up 89% of its total revenue and data licensing makes up about 11%.
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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.
As of August 2023, X (formerly Twitter) CEO Elon Musk was the most followed person on the platform, with little over 140 million followers. Additionally, former U.S. President Barack Obama amassed 132 million followers on the micro-blogging service. In April 2023, Musk changed Twitter's legal name to X Corp.
Celebrities and Twitter
Founded in 2006 as Twitter, X is an online social networking and microblogging service that allows users to post text-based status updates and messages of up to 280 characters in length. As of the fourth quarter of 2020, X had 192 million monetizable daily active users (mDAU) worldwide.
X provides a near-instant access channel to celebrities. The majority of the top ten most-followed X accounts are entertainers who use the medium to communicate with fans, spread relevant news regarding their work or work on their public image. The near-instant gratification through a stream of direct updates from celebrities or personalities as well as the feeling of belonging to a particular group of fans is a popular reason for social media users to use X. In order to establish authenticity of identity on X, accounts of people from high-interest areas such as music, fashion, entertainment, politics, media, business or other areas as well as individuals at high risk of impersonation are verified by X. The verification badge symbolizes that the account is maintained by a legitimate source.
Major sporting events and industry award shows such as the Super Bowl, the Grammy Awards or Academy Awards generate lots of online buzz on X. The online discussion allows users to participate in the success of celebrities who often post behind-the-scenes photo tweets or commentaries. On-set or in-concert tweets are further methods of celebrities enhancing their appeal, and level of fan interaction.