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

This is the breakdown of Twitter users by age group.

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

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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.

In the second quarter of 2022, monetizable daily active users (mDAU) of X/Twitter based in the United States amounted to 14.5 million, up by 4.5 million compared to the second quarter of 2021. Worldwide users of the micro-blogging platform increased by over 15 percent within one year.

As of February 2025, 24.5 percent of X (formerly Twitter) users were men aged between 25 and 34 years. Overall, almost 19 percent of users were men aged between 18 and 24 years. X has a high share of male users when compared to other popular social media platforms.

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.

In 2024, accounts on X (formerly Twitter) posted an average of 3.55 times per week, down from 5.73 times per week in 2023. In October 2022, Elon Musk acquired Twitter for 44 billion US dollars.

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

During the first half of 2024 there were 34,497 pieces of content removed from X due to personal privacy violations, which include the publishing or sharing of other people's private information. These types of violations are also known as doxxing. Overall, 30,450 of these pieces of content were reported manually by users of the platform.

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.

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.

In 2024, posts on X (formerly Twitter) generated an average of 31.46 likes, down from 37.82 likes in 2023. Mentions and reposts also declines year-over-year, and in 2024, the average post on the platform received 1.56 likes and 8.47 mentions.

In 2024, X (formerly Twitter) posts generated an average of 2,121 impressions, up from 1,206 impressions in 2023. In 2022, Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter sent shockwaves through the tech world, and much has changed on the platform since.

In 2024, X (formerly Twitter) posts had an average of 3.4 replies, up from an average of 1.64 replies in 2023. Elon Musk's X account is the profile with the most followers on the platform.

During the second half of 2024, X (formerly Twitter) actioned or withheld a total of 230,392 copyright notices and 11,458 copyright counter notices. Additionally, the platform actioned or withheld 155,492 trademark notices within these six months.

According to a survey conducted in March 2023, 40 percent of X (formerly Twitter) users reported it was extremely or very likely that they would still be using the platform in a year's time. Overall, 35 percent said it was somewhat likely, and one-quarter of respondents stated it was not very likely, or not likely at all.