These are the key Twitter user statistics that you need to know.

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.

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This is the breakdown of Twitter users by age group.

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.

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

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.

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.

Statistics on the number of tweets, number of followers, number of likes, number of retweets and number of people reached per month since October 2020 for the official Twitter account of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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

In 2020, 189 countries were represented through an official presence on Twitter, either by personal or institutional accounts run by heads of state and government and foreign ministers. During the measured period, U.S. President Donald Trump was ranked first, having accumulated over 81.1 million Twitter followers on his personal account. The official @POTUS account was ranked fifth with 30.2 million followers worldwide. Heads of state on Twitter Twitter is a very conversational social platform, allowing users to communicate in a very public manner. Foreign ministries utilize Twitter to expand their online presence and digital diplomatic networks, and government officials are encouraged to interact with the public. The most conversational world leader on Twitter is the Government of Nepal, with 96 percent of their tweets being @ replies to other Twitter users. Another more subtle layer of Twitter diplomacy is the mutual following of peers between official heads of state, minister and other government accounts – as of June 2020, the Foreign Ministry of Iceland (@MFAIceland) was ranked first, having 147 mutual connections with other world leaders and foreign ministries on Twitter. During the measured period, @realDonaldTrump, @POTUS and the @WhiteHouse Twitter accounts did not follow any other foreign leaders. In 2018, the account of the U.S. State Department had only 59 mutual peer connections on Twitter, painting a relatively isolated picture in terms of international political communications. Trump on Twitter Donald Trump’s prolific Twitter usage is a hotly debated topic. The President uses Twitter on a daily basis to make comments about other politicians, celebrities and daily news, sometimes antagonizing others with his controversial statements. According to an August 2018 survey, 61 percent of U.S. adults stated that Trump's use of Twitter as President of the United States was inappropriate, while only 24 percent of respondents said the opposite. In total, 90 percent of respondents who identified as Democrats thought that Trump's Twitter use was inappropriate; while on the other end of the political spectrum only 35 percent of respondents identifying as Republicans reported having the same opinion.

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! ;)

This dataset contains statistics on the usage patterns of the official City of Seattle Twitter accounts, as well their outreach impact. Jun 2016 - Jan 2017

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.

Descriptive statistics for Twitter metrics.

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.

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.

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.

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 29th which yielded over 4 million tweets a day.

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 (70,569,368 unique tweets), and a cleaned version with no retweets on the full_dataset-clean.tsv file (13,535,912 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.

Twitter is ranked as the 12h most popular social media site in the world. The platform currently has 611 million active monthly users.