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.

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.

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

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.  

As of January 2024, X (formerly Twitter) had almost two million users in Belgium and close to eight million users in the Netherlands. Additionally, the app was home to around 438 thousand users in Luxembourg. Facebook was the most popular social media platform in Belgium as of March 2023.

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.

As of August 2023, X (formerly Twitter) CEO Elon Musk was the most followed person on the platform, with little over 140 million followers. Additionally, former U.S. President Barack Obama amassed 132 million followers on the micro-blogging service. In April 2023, Musk changed Twitter's legal name to X Corp.

Celebrities and Twitter

Founded in 2006 as Twitter, X is an online social networking and microblogging service that allows users to post text-based status updates and messages of up to 280 characters in length. As of the fourth quarter of 2020, X had 192 million monetizable daily active users (mDAU) worldwide.

X provides a near-instant access channel to celebrities. The majority of the top ten most-followed X accounts are entertainers who use the medium to communicate with fans, spread relevant news regarding their work or work on their public image. The near-instant gratification through a stream of direct updates from celebrities or personalities as well as the feeling of belonging to a particular group of fans is a popular reason for social media users to use X. In order to establish authenticity of identity on X, accounts of people from high-interest areas such as music, fashion, entertainment, politics, media, business or other areas as well as individuals at high risk of impersonation are verified by X. The verification badge symbolizes that the account is maintained by a legitimate source.

Major sporting events and industry award shows such as the Super Bowl, the Grammy Awards or Academy Awards generate lots of online buzz on X. The online discussion allows users to participate in the success of celebrities who often post behind-the-scenes photo tweets or commentaries. On-set or in-concert tweets are further methods of celebrities enhancing their appeal, and level of fan interaction.

The reach by social network in the 'X' (formerly Twitter) segment of the digital advertising market in South Korea was forecast to continuously decrease between 2023 and 2028 by in total 0.3 million users. After the ninth consecutive decreasing year, the indicator is estimated to reach 6.05 million users and therefore a new minimum in 2028. Find more information concerning Saudi Arabia and South Africa.The Statista Market Insights cover a broad range of additional markets.

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.

Dataset Card for Homophobia Detection Dataset (Twitter/X)

  Dataset Summary

This dataset was developed to address the significant gap in online hate speech detection, particularly focusing on homophobia, which is often neglected in sentiment analysis research. It comprises tweets scraped from X (formerly Twitter), which have been labeled for the presence of homophobic content by volunteers from diverse backgrounds. This dataset is the largest open-source labelled English… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/JoshMcGiff/HomophobiaDetectionTwitterX.

See attached replication files including codebook and data.

According to a 2024 survey, around ** percent of Brazil's X (formerly Twitter) users leaned toward a Right-wing political position. However, around ** percent of users of the platform leaned towards a Left-Wing orientation, more than other social media platforms in the country, and only behind Tumblr users on that side of the political spectrum.

The research project, SPARTA (Social Media Analysis for Everyone), funded by dtec.bw (which is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU), monitors the 2025 German federal election live as it unfolds on TikTok, YouTube and X/Twitter. Since November 7, 2024, the day the "traffic light" coalition collapsed, we have been collecting and analyzing all German-language posts and reposts on X (formerly Twitter) related to the federal elections. Simultaneously, we gather data from TikTok and YouTube, focusing on the accounts of political parties, including those of candidates and current members of the Bundestag, during the same period. Our analysis includes, among other things, the stances expressed towards political parties and leading candidates, the most discussed issues and hashtags, the outreach of political parties across different platforms, the visibility of female candidates, the occurrence of negative campaigning, the rise of toxic language, and the activity of various actors across platforms. We publish the results in real time on our publicly accessible dashboard (https://dtecbw.de/sparta/), which provides interactive and customizable graphics, making it relevant to a broad audience from politics, academia, journalism, and society. To facilitate real-time analysis of the election campaign, we compiled a dataset based on the data of the federal election officer (Bundeswahlleiterin), containing the TikTok, YouTube and X/Twitter handles of all candidates running for a seat in the parliament. This dataset includes the handles as well as additional information about the candidates from eight political parties: AfD, BSW, Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen, CDU, CSU, Die Linke, FDP and SPD.

In January 2025, X (formerly Twitter) accounted for approximately 5.6 percent of the mobile social media market in Asia. This indicated a decrease from 7.38 percent of the same month of the previous year.

As of February 2025, the number of X (formerly Twitter) users in Singapore reached 13.2 million. This represented more than a twofold increase from nearly six million users in 2024.X (formerly Twitter) in SingaporeAs of January 2025, X (formerly Twitter) accounted for around six percent of the social media market in Asia. In Singapore, X is the eighth most used social media platform. Singaporeans primarily use X to look out for trending topics and events that take place locally and internationally. Current developmentsIn an effort to reduce misinformation and online falsehoods, the government has been working with Facebook and X since 2019. Academics, journalists and civil society groups have taken to the platform to discuss political, social and cultural issues while some others have used it to spread hate speech. For instance, police reports were made against a user that published racially insensitive tweets regarding migrant workers.

Dataset Card for "cardiffnlp/tweet_topic_multilingual"

  Dataset Summary

This is the official repository of X-Topic (Multilingual Topic Classification in X: Dataset and Analysis, EMNLP 2024), a topic classification dataset based on X (formerly Twitter), featuring 19 topic labels. The classification task is multi-label, with tweets available in four languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, and Greek. The dataset comprises 4,000 tweets (1,000 per language), collected between… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/cardiffnlp/tweet_topic_multilingual.

Dieser Datensatz enthält das von 𝕏 (vormals Twitter) erstellte Datenarchiv des Accounts @textarchiv des Deutschen Textarchivs (DTA). Das Archiv beinhaltet 1994 Tweets und die auf dieser Plattform getätigten Interaktionen. Erstellt wurde das Archiv am 22. Januar 2025 um 17:20:39 GMT+1. Der Account @textarchiv wurde am 19. April 2012 erstellt und am 22. Januar 2025 gelöscht.

This data set contains the data archive created by 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) for the @textarchiv account of the German Text Archive (DTA). The archive contains 1994 tweets and the interactions made on this platform. The archive was created on 22 January 2025 at 17:20:39 GMT+1. The account @textarchiv was created on 19 April 2012 and deleted on 22 January 2025.

In February 2025, Sweden was the Nordic country with the most amount of X (formerly Twitter) users, amassing 2.39 million users. Overall, Finland's X/Twitter audience stood at 2.21 million, whilst Norway's stood at 1.11 million users. In Iceland, there were around 196,000 X/Twitter users as of early 2025. Throughout the Nordic region, social media networks have a reach of between 66 and 81 percent.

As of February 2025, approximately 34.2 percent of X (formerly Twitter) users in the United Kingdom (UK) were women. By comparison, male users on the social network accounted for 65.8 percent of total users.

This dataset contains the tweet, mention, identity of mentioned persons, hashtags and X URL's posted by OECD leaders during the study period