Social network X/Twitter is particularly popular in the United States, and as of April 2024, the microblogging service had an audience reach of 106.23 million users in the country. Japan and the India were ranked second and third with more than 69 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.

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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As of December 2022, X/Twitter's audience accounted for over 368 million monthly active users worldwide. This figure was projected to decrease to approximately 335 million by 2024, a decline of around five percent compared to 2022.

As of September 2023, it was found that 42 percent of adults in the United States aged between 18 and 29 years used X (formerly Twitter). This age group was the microblogging service’s biggest audience in the United States, followed by a 27 percent usage reach among 30 to 49-year-olds. X users in the United StatesAs of the first quarter of 2019, Twitter had 68 million monthly active users in the United States. In the fourth quarter of 2020, the number of monetizable daily active Twitter users in the country amounted to 37 million. As of January 2021, 61.6 percent of U.S. Twitter audiences were male and 38.4 percent were female. According to a February 2019 survey of social media users in the United States, Twitter was the most popular social network for news consumption. X usage in the United StatesTwitter is popular among users looking to catch up and chime in on current and trending topics and live-tweet about events and media. Live-tweeting television series or sporting events is a popular user activity and in 2018, the most popular television series based on average number of Twitter interactions per episode was ABC’s ‘The Bachelor’. In terms of global sporting events, it does not get much bigger than the Olympic Games. During the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang 2018, Twitter accounted for 50 percent of stakeholder posts during the Winter.

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In January 2024, Sweden was the Nordic country with the most amount of X (formerly Twitter) users, amassing 2.6 million users. Overall, Norway's X/Twitter audience stood at 1.89 million, whilst Finland's stood at 1.64 million users. In Iceland, there were around 127,600 X/Twitter users as of early 2024. Throughout the Nordic region, social media networks have a reach of between 66 and 82 percent.

As of February 2024, Twitter is ranked as the 12h most popular social media site in the world. The platform currently has 436 million active monthly users.

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

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This is the breakdown of Twitter users by age group.

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.

The number of Twitter users in the United Kingdom was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 0.9 million users (+5.1 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Twitter user base is estimated to reach 18.55 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).

The number of Twitter users in France was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 0.8 million users (+8.18 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Twitter user base is estimated to reach 10.59 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 Luxembourg and Netherlands.

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.

As of January 2024, 22.4 percent of X (formerly Twitter) users were men aged between 25 and 34 years. Overall, almost 20 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 436 million monthly active users, building a huge Twitter following is not an easy task.

X (formerly Twitter) in Russia was largely used by men. As of February 2025, the share of male users of the social media platform in the country was close to 62 percent.

The global number of Twitter users in was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 74.3 million users (+17.32 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Twitter user base is estimated to reach 503.42 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 South America and the Americas.