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).

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.

As of January 2024, approximately 38.1 percent of X (formerly Twitter) users in the United Kingdom (UK) were women. By comparison, male users on the social network accounted for almost 62 percent of total users.

As of September 2024, 34 percent of X (formerly Twitter) users in the United Kingdom were from a high income household, while 36 percent were from a medium income household.

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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This is the breakdown of Twitter users by age group.

In the first quarter of 2020, the majority of respondents in the United Kingdom (UK) reported using Twitter several times a day, at 43 percent. A share of 15 percent of the respondents stated that they used Twitter a few times a week.

Leading accounts on Twitter

As of November 2020, BBC Breaking News was the most popular Twitter account based in the United Kingdom, in terms of the number of followers. Other than the BBC news account, the rest of the top five Twitter accounts included three members of the boyband One Direction: Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, along with the Twitter account of One Direction itself.

Social media in the UK

The number of social media users in the United Kingdom increased between 2015 and 2020, reaching roughly 48.6 million users in 2020. This figure is projected to grow to over 50 million users by 2023.

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

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, 29 percent of X (formerly Twitter) users in the United Kingdom held a Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification, while 15 percent held a master’s degree. Overall, just three percent of X users were of a doctoral degree level of education.

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.

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

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.

Collection of tweets captured at the time of the 2011 UK Riots. This collection is only partial, retrieved via the streaming API.

The data provides a historical record of public discussion on Twitter during a significant social happening. It also represents a useful resources for experimentation and methodological development. The data is both a social and an informational resource, enabling the analysis of a significant social event and the development/application of computational tools for, among other aims, natural language processing, information retrieval, meta data analysis. In addition to the principle collection of tweets (UK Riots Database), a sub-collection has been extracted that includes only the geo-tagged tweets. Finally, these databases are stored on MongoDB and are made queryable using a special interface (see the UK Riots Database for access and instructions) that allows queries to be stored in another dataset, shared, and re-executed.

This dataset contains ~11M tweets related to the 2019 United Kingdom General Election, published and collected between November 12, 2019, and December 12, 2019. In addition, we provide nodes and edges of the superspreader user similarity network, as described in the paper below.

Please, refer to the paper below for more details.

Nizzoli, L., Tardelli, S., Avvenuti, M., Cresci, S., & Tesconi, M. (2021). Coordinated Behavior on Social Media in 2019 UK General Election. In 15th International Conference on Web and Social Media. AAAI.

In detail, the dataset consists of:

tweet-ids.csv.zip: a CSV file with the column "tweet_id," containing 11,264,820 tweet IDs related to the 2019 United Kingdom General Election, published and collected between November 12, 2019, and December 12, 2019.

superspreader-nodes.csv.zip: a CSV file with the columns "id" and "cluster," relating to the nodes of the superspreader user similarity network mentioned in the paper.

superspreader-edges.csv.zip: a CSV file with the columns "source," "target," and "weight," relating to the edges of the superspreader user similarity network mentioned in the paper.

As of October 2024, 26 percent of X (formerly Twitter) users in the United Kingdom stated that they held left - leaning political views. Overall, 30 percent said they held right leaning political attitudes.