As of April 2024, 36.6 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 34.2 percent. Users aged less than 18 years accounted for 2.4 percent of users, while those aged 50 or older accounted for roughly seven 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.

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.

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.

This is the breakdown of Twitter users by age group.

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.

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

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.

This statistic shows the results of the survey on Twitter users in Sweden in the first and third quarter of 2020, broken down by age group. Those aged 16 to 25 years used Twitter the most with 44 percent of individuals in this age group using the social media platform. Twitter appears to be more popular among the younger generations (up to 45 years old). Twitter usage declined significantly among older users, with only three percent of those aged 76 and older claiming they used the platform.

38.5% of Twitter users are aged 25-34 and make up the biggest age group on the platform. Only 6.6% of Twitter users are aged 13-17.

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

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%.

As of September 2024, Millennials, those born between 1980 and 1994, made up 36 percent of X's (formerly Twitter) user base in the United Kingdom. Overall, 31 percent of users in the UK belonged to Generation X, and 24 percent were of Generation Z.

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The average Twitter user spends 5.1 hours per month on the platform.

The US has the largest number of Twitter users with 79.6 million users. They account for about 16.7% of all Twitter users worldwide.

As of the third quarter of 2020, 47 percent of U.S. internet users aged 15 to 25 years used the microblogging platform Twitter. Only 26 percent of internet users aged 56 years and older reported the same.

With over 436 million monthly active users, building a huge Twitter following is not an easy task.

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).

Sample tweets manually annotated as “age” (+) or “no age” (-).