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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.

Introduction

X Statistics (Twitter): X, previously referred to as Twitter, is the platform where the first tweet was posted by Jack Dorsey (the CEO of Twitter) on March 21, 2006. It took a total of 3 years, 2 months, and 1 day to achieve the significant milestone of one billion tweets on the platform.

Twitter became a publicly traded company in November 2013. Its user engagement increased a year later, with daily tweets increasing from 20,000 to 60,000 during the South by Southwest conference. Since that time, it has changed into a primary venue for users to share their daily experiences, discuss their interests, and connect with individuals globally. At that point, Twitter had approximately 200 million users.

Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion to change it into a private entity. Following this acquisition, multiple changes have occurred, including the rebranding to X. Currently, X ranks among the top six social networking applications in the United States, boasting over 500 million users worldwide.

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.

Dataset containing twitter data, namely hashed twitter id, hashed user id, tweet language, user statistics.

A online survey conducted in the United States in May 2021 asked respondents their reasons for using social media and networking platform Twitter. Overall, 82 percent of high-volume users, those who produced 20 or more tweets per month, said that they used Twitter for entertainment reasons. Furthermore, 77 percent of high-frequency tweeters said that they used the platform as a way to express their opinions whereas 29 percent of low-frequency users said that they made use of the Twitter for this purpose. Additionally, 59 percent of high-volume users and 45 percent of low-volume users reported that Twitter has increased their understandings of current events in the last year.

Due to the relevance of the COVID-19 global pandemic, we are releasing our dataset of tweets acquired from the Twitter Stream related to COVID-19 chatter. The first 9 weeks of data (from January 1st, 2020 to March 11th, 2020) contain very low tweet counts as we filtered other data we were collecting for other research purposes, however, one can see the dramatic increase as the awareness for the virus spread. Dedicated data gathering started from March 11th to March 30th which yielded over 4 million tweets a day. We have added additional data provided by our new collaborators from January 27th to February 27th, to provide extra longitudinal coverage.

The data collected from the stream captures all languages, but the higher prevalence are: English, Spanish, and French. We release all tweets and retweets on the full_dataset.tsv file (101,400,452 unique tweets), and a cleaned version with no retweets on the full_dataset-clean.tsv file (20,244,746 unique tweets). There are several practical reasons for us to leave the retweets, tracing important tweets and their dissemination is one of them. For NLP tasks we provide the top 1000 frequent terms in frequent_terms.csv, the top 1000 bigrams in frequent_bigrams.csv, and the top 1000 trigrams in frequent_trigrams.csv. Some general statistics per day are included for both datasets in the statistics-full_dataset.tsv and statistics-full_dataset-clean.tsv files.

More details can be found (and will be updated faster at: https://github.com/thepanacealab/covid19_twitter)

As always, the tweets distributed here are only tweet identifiers (with date and time added) due to the terms and conditions of Twitter to re-distribute Twitter data. The need to be hydrated to be used.

This dataset contains statistics related to the Unleashed Twitter account (@SAUnleashed). Unleashed is an open data competition, an initiative of the Office for Digital Government, Department of the Premier and Cabinet. The data is used to monitor the level of engagement activity with the audience, and make the communication effective in regards to the event.

As of February 2025, micro-blogging platform X (formerly Twitter) was more popular with men than women, with male audiences accounting for 63.7 percent of global users. Additionally, users between the ages of 25 and 34 were particularly active on X/Twitter, making up more than 37 percent of users worldwide. How many people use? Although X/Twitter holds its status as a mainstream social media site, it falls short in comparison to other well-known platforms in terms of user numbers. As of early 2022, X/Twitter had around 436 million monthly active users, whilst Meta’s Facebook reached almost three billion MAU. Overall, the United States is home to over 105 million X/Twitter users, making up Twitter’s largest audience base, followed by Japan, India, and the United Kingdom, respectively. How is Twitter used? X/Twitter is utilized by its audience for many different purposes. In May 2021, over 80 percent of high-volume X/Twitter users (defined as users who tweet around 20 times per month) in the United States reported using the platform for entertainment, whilst 78 percent said they used it as a way to stay informed. High-volume X/Twitter users were far more likely to use the service as a means of expressing their opinion. Furthermore, in 2022, over half of social media users in the U.S. used Twitter as a news resource.  

This is the breakdown of Twitter users by age group.

Version 22 of the dataset, we have refactored the full_dataset.tsv and full_dataset_clean.tsv files (since version 20) to include two additional columns: language and place country code (when available). This change now includes language and country code for ALL the tweets in the dataset, not only clean tweets. With this change we have removed the clean_place_country.tar.gz and clean_languages.tar.gz files. With our refactoring of the dataset generating code we also found a small bug that made some of the retweets not be counted properly, hence the extra increase on tweets available. Due to the relevance of the COVID-19 global pandemic, we are releasing our dataset of tweets acquired from the Twitter Stream related to COVID-19 chatter. Since our first release we have received additional data from our new collaborators, allowing this resource to grow to its current size. Dedicated data gathering started from March 11th yielding over 4 million tweets a day. We have added additional data provided by our new collaborators from January 27th to March 27th, to provide extra longitudinal coverage. Version 10 added ~1.5 million tweets in the Russian language collected between January 1st and May 8th, gracefully provided to us by: Katya Artemova (NRU HSE) and Elena Tutubalina (KFU). From version 12 we have included daily hashtags, mentions and emoijis and their frequencies the respective zip files. From version 14 we have included the tweet identifiers and their respective language for the clean version of the dataset. Since version 20 we have included language and place location for all tweets. The data collected from the stream captures all languages, but the higher prevalence are: English, Spanish, and French. We release all tweets and retweets on the full_dataset.tsv file (602,921,788 unique tweets), and a cleaned version with no retweets on the full_dataset-clean.tsv file (142,360,288 unique tweets). There are several practical reasons for us to leave the retweets, tracing important tweets and their dissemination is one of them. For NLP tasks we provide the top 1000 frequent terms in frequent_terms.csv, the top 1000 bigrams in frequent_bigrams.csv, and the top 1000 trigrams in frequent_trigrams.csv. Some general statistics per day are included for both datasets in the full_dataset-statistics.tsv and full_dataset-clean-statistics.tsv files. For more statistics and some visualizations visit: http://www.panacealab.org/covid19/ More details can be found (and will be updated faster at: https://github.com/thepanacealab/covid19_twitter) and our pre-print about the dataset (https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03688) As always, the tweets distributed here are only tweet identifiers (with date and time added) due to the terms and conditions of Twitter to re-distribute Twitter data ONLY for research purposes. They need to be hydrated to be used. This dataset will be updated bi-weekly at least with additional tweets, look at the github repo for these updates. Release: We have standardized the name of the resource to match our pre-print manuscript and to not have to update it every week.

We used the Twitter API (V2) to collect all tweets, retweets, quotes and replies containing case-insensitive versions of the hashtags: #(I)StandWithPutin, #(I)StandWithRussia, #(I)SupportRussia, #(I)StandWithUkraine, #(I)StandWithZelenskyy and #(I)SupportUkraine. These were obtained from February 23rd 2022 00:00:00 UTC until March 8th 2022 23:59:59 UTC, the fortnight after Russia invaded Ukraine. We queried the hashtags with and without the `I', a total of 12 query hashtags, collecting 5,203,746 tweets. The data collected predates the beginning of the Russian invasion by one day. These hashtags were chosen as they were found to be the most trending hashtags related to the Russia/Ukraine war which could be easily identified with a particular side in the conflict. We calculated Botometer results on 483,100 (26.5%) of accounts. These accounts were randomly sampled from a list of all unique users in our dataset which posted in English. This random sample leads to an approximately uniform frequency of Tweets from accounts with Botometer labels across the time frame we considered. We include the language dependent and language independent results from Botometer, including the Complete Automation Probabilities (CAP) and each of the sub-category scores for different bot types. Moreoever, we include the display scores and raw scores from Botometer for each account. More information about the Botometer scores can be found at this link: https://rapidapi.com/OSoMe/api/botometer-pro/details You can find our paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07038

Basic statistics of the three tweet collections.

Due to the relevance of the COVID-19 global pandemic, we are releasing our dataset of tweets acquired from the Twitter Stream related to COVID-19 chatter. Since our first release we have received additional data from our new collaborators, allowing this resource to grow to its current size. Dedicated data gathering started from March 11th yielding over 4 million tweets a day. We have added additional data provided by our new collaborators from January 27th to March 27th, to provide extra longitudinal coverage.

The data collected from the stream captures all languages, but the higher prevalence are: English, Spanish, and French. We release all tweets and retweets on the full_dataset.tsv file (152,920,832 unique tweets), and a cleaned version with no retweets on the full_dataset-clean.tsv file (30,990,645 unique tweets). There are several practical reasons for us to leave the retweets, tracing important tweets and their dissemination is one of them. For NLP tasks we provide the top 1000 frequent terms in frequent_terms.csv, the top 1000 bigrams in frequent_bigrams.csv, and the top 1000 trigrams in frequent_trigrams.csv. Some general statistics per day are included for both datasets in the statistics-full_dataset.tsv and statistics-full_dataset-clean.tsv files.

More details can be found (and will be updated faster at: https://github.com/thepanacealab/covid19_twitter)

As always, the tweets distributed here are only tweet identifiers (with date and time added) due to the terms and conditions of Twitter to re-distribute Twitter data ONLY for research purposes. The need to be hydrated to be used.

Replication data for the paper “The speed of news in Twitter (X) versus radio”. If you use these datasets in a published work, please cite our paper!The dataset contains the following files:Tweet IDs:auto-elite-tweet-ids.csv.gz: Tweet IDs for automatically detected event analysis, elite usersauto-firehose-tweet-ids.csv.gz: Tweet IDs for automatically detected event analysis, firehosemanual-elite-tweet-ids.csv.gz: Tweet IDs for manually detected even analysis, elite usersmanual-firehose-tweet-ids.csv.gz: Tweet IDs for manually detected even analysis, firehoseManually detected events data:manual-radio-raw.csv.gz: Item-level information for radio speaker turns used in manually detected event analysismanual-radio-ticks.csv: Radio “tick” data for manually detected event analysis (i.e., counts of keyword mentions by 15-minute bin)Automatically detected events item-level data:auto-radio-sample.csv.gz: Item-level information for radio speaker turns used in automatically detected event analysisAutomatically detected events story-level data:auto-radio-story-stats.csv: Statistics about automatically detected eventsauto-radio-story-selected.csv: Selected events after filtering out non-news eventsauto-radio-story-stats-con.csv: Statistics about automatically detected events as restricted to conservativesauto-radio-story-stats-lib.csv: Statistics about automatically detected events as restricted to liberalsauto-radio-story-cdfs.npy.gz: Empirical CDFs for automatically detected eventsauto-radio-story-cdfs-con.npy.gz: Empirical CDFs for automatically detected events as restricted to conservativesauto-radio-story-cdfs-lib.npy.gz: Empirical CDFs for automatically detected events as restricted to liberals

This statistic presents the number of tweets by Twitter board members as of July 2019. As of the measured month, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey had posted 25,900 tweets. Second-ranked Martha Lane Fox was a similarly prolific Twitter user with over 23,000 tweets.

All Cook County Tweets, starting in 2011 to 12/31/2013. As measured by Crowdbooster.

The platform is male-dominated with 68.1% of all Twitter users being male. Just 31.9% of Twitter users are female.