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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.
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 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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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 number of Twitter users in France was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total *** million users (+**** percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Twitter user base is estimated to reach ***** 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 *** 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.
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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.
As of February 2025, 37.5 percent of X’s (formerly Twitter) global audience was aged between 25 and 34 years. The second-largest age group demographic on the platform was represented by users aged between 18 and 24 years, with a share of 32.1 percent. Users aged less than 18 years accounted for two percent of users, while those aged 50 or older accounted for roughly 7.3 percent. X is a male-dominated platform As of January 2024, more than 60 percent of X users were male. Although all mainstream social media platforms tend to have a slightly more male-skewing audience, X stands out above Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and Facebook when it comes to user gender demographics. Overall, Pinterest is the only mainstream platform to have a higher share of female users. X Blue for you It is not uncommon for social media users to now have the chance to become subscribers of their chosen online networks for a monthly fee. X Blue is a subscription service from X that gives users special benefits and features. A blue verification mark, edit post functionality, fewer ads, priority ranking in chats, and longer video upload times are some of the perks offered.
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This is the breakdown of Twitter users by age group.
The number of Twitter users in Romania was forecast to increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 0.01 million users (+1.45 percent). This overall increase does not happen continuously, notably not in 2027 and 2028. The Twitter user base is estimated to amount to 0.7 million users in 2028. 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 Serbia and Cyprus.
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These are the key Twitter user statistics that you need to know.
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We collected the data of a Twitter user using Tweepy to access the Twitter API. We crawled the list of each user account’s followers. Twitter allowed a request of a maximum of 200 tweets per time window and because of limitations of the Twitter API, we could only make a request every 15 minutes. Next, we obtained the most recent tweets of each user in the study. We extracted the most common hashtags used in the sample tweets and crawled the most recent 50 tweets that contained each hashtag and tweets that mentioned a particular user, for example ’@username.’ Initially, we chose 101 user accounts and documented the attributes of each user’s account (number of followers, a list of followers, and the recent tweets of each follower).
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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.
The number of Twitter users in Brazil was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total *** million users (+***** percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Twitter user base is estimated to reach ***** 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 *** 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).
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.
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This is the Twitter Parliamentarian Database: a database consisting of parliamentarian names, parties and twitter ids from the following countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Poland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, New Zealand, Turkey, United States, Canada, Australia, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Latvia and Slovenia. In addition, the database includes the European Parliament.The tweet ids from the politicans' tweets have been collected from September 2017 - 31 October 2019 (all_tweet_ids.csv). In compliance with Twitter's policy, we only store tweet ids, which can be re-hydrated into full tweets using existing tools. More information on how to use the database can be found in the readme.txt.It is recommended that you use the .csv files to work with the data, rather than the SQL tables. Information on the relations in the SQL database can be found in the Database codebook.pdf.Update:The tweet ids for 2021 have been added as '2021.csv'Update #2:The tweet ids for 2020 have been added as '2020.csv'The last party table has been added as 'parties_2021_04_28.csv'The last members table has been added as 'members_2021_04_28.csv'
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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.
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At the end of October 2022, Elon Musk concluded his acquisition of Twitter. In the weeks and months before that, several questions were publicly discussed that were not only of interest to the platform's future buyers, but also of high relevance to the Computational Social Science research community. For example, how many active users does the platform have? What percentage of accounts on the site are bots? And, what are the dominating topics and sub-topical spheres on the platform? In a globally coordinated effort of 80 scholars to shed light on these questions, and to offer a dataset that will equip other researchers to do the same, we have collected 375 million tweets published within a 24-hour time period starting on September 21, 2022. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first complete 24-hour Twitter dataset that is available for the research community. With it, the present work aims to accomplish two goals. First, we seek to answer the aforementioned questions and provide descriptive metrics about Twitter that can serve as references for other researchers. Second, we create a baseline dataset for future research that can be used to study the potential impact of the platform's ownership change.
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.
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-This Dataset was gathered by crawling Twitter's REST API using the Python library tweepy 3. This dataset contains the tweets of the 20 most popular twitter users (with the most followers) whereby retweets are neglected. These accounts belong to public people, such as Katy Perry and Barack Obama, platforms, YouTube, Instagram, and television channels shows, e.g., CNN Breaking News and The Ellen Show. -Consequently, the dataset contains a mix of relatively structured tweets, tweets written in a formal and informative manner, and completely unstructured tweets written in a colloquial style. Unfortunately, the geocoordinates were not available for those tweets. - H -This Dataset has been used to generate reserach paper under title "Machine Learning Techniques for Anomalies Detection in Post Arrays". -Crawled attributes are: Author (Twitter User), Content (Tweet), Date_Time, id (Twitter User ID), language (Tweet Langugage), Number_of_Likes, Number_of_Shares. Overall: 52543 tweets of top 20 users in twitter Screen_Name #Tweets Time span (in days) TheEllenShow 3,147 - 662 jimmyfallon 3,123 - 1231 ArianaGrande 3,104 - 613 YouTube 3,077 - 411 KimKardashian 2,939 - 603 katyperry 2,924 - 1,598 selenagomez 2,913 - 2,266 rihanna 2,877 - 1,557 BarackObama 2,863 - 849 britneyspears 2,776 - 1,548 instagram 2,577 - 456 shakira 2,530 - 1,850 Cristiano 2,507 - 2,407 jtimberlake 2,478 - 2,491 ladygaga 2,329 - 894 Twitter 2,290 - 2,593 ddlovato 2,217 - 741 taylorswift13 2,029 - 2,091 justinbieber 2,000 - 664 cnnbrk 1,842 - 183
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