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

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.

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.

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

How many people use X/Twitter?

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

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.

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).

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 ** percent.

As of February 2025, the number of X (formerly Twitter) users in Singapore reached **** million. This represented more than a twofold increase from nearly *** million users in 2024.X (formerly Twitter) in SingaporeAs of January 2025, X (formerly Twitter) accounted for around *** percent of the social media market in Asia. In Singapore, X is the ****** 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.

The undertaking of several studies of political phenomena in social media mandates the operationalization of the notion of political stance of users and contents involved. Relevant examples include the study of segregation and polarization online, the study of political diversity in content diets in social media, or AI explainability. While many research designs rely on operationalizations best suited for the US setting, few allow addressing more general design, in which users and content might take stances on multiple ideology and issue dimensions, going beyond traditional Liberal-Conservative or Left-Right scales. To advance the study of more general online ecosystems, we present a dataset of X/Twitter population of users in the French political Twittersphere and web domains embedded in a political space spanned by dimensions measuring attitudes towards immigration, the EU, liberal values, elites and institutions, nationalism and the environment. We provide several benchmarks validating the positions of these entities (based on both, LLM and human annotations), and discuss several applications for this dataset.

Between January and June 2024, X (formerly Twitter) received over 81 million user reports of abuse and harassment on the platform, and over 66 million reports of hateful conduct. Additionally, during this six-month period, there were over 40 million reports of violent content. Company financials have not been available since X/Twitter’s last annual report was published in early 2022.

Dataset Description

Paper: TBC Point of Contact: Josh McGiff (Josh.McGiff@ul.ie)

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 dataset for homophobia detection known to the authors and aims to enhance online safety and inclusivity.

Supported Tasks

Task: Homophobic hate speech detection.

Languages English.

Dataset Structure

Data Fields: tweet_text: The text content of the tweet. label: Binary label indicating the presence of homophobic content (0 = no homophobic content, 1 = homophobic content). 'language': The language of the tweet, as tagged by X/Twitter.

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale: The dataset was curated to enhance the detection and classification of homophobic content on social media platforms, particularly focusing on the gap where homophobia is underrepresented in current research. Source Data: Data was scraped from X (formerly Twitter) focusing on terms and accounts associated with the LGBTQIA+ community. Annotation Process: Annotations were made by three volunteers from different sexualities and gender identities using a majority vote for label assignment. Annotations were conducted in Microsoft Excel over several days. Personal and Sensitive Information: Usernames and other personal identifiers have been anonymized or removed. URLs have also been removed. The dataset contains sensitive content related to homophobia.

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact: The dataset is intended for research purposes to combat online hate speech and improve inclusivity and safety on digital platforms. Ethical Considerations: Given the sensitive nature of hate speech, researchers should consider the impact of their work on marginalised communities and ensure that their use of the dataset aims to reduce harm and promote inclusivity. Legal and Privacy Concerns: Researchers should comply with legal standards and ethical guidelines regarding hate speech and data privacy.

Additional Information

License: CC-BY-4.0 Citation: TBC

Acknowledgements This work was conducted with the financial support of the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence under Grant No. 18/CRT/6223.

This repo hosts a zip archive (md5:87a2cda447e249c9d7feb7519af415d4) associated with the Twitter/X account @EvoMRI (i.e. https://twitter.com/EvoMRI / https://x.com/EvoMRI ), as per my final tweet.

As this includes personally identifiable information about other people, the access is restricted for the time being. Please get in touch if you'd like to make use of the archive.

The largest group of X users in Poland were those with a secondary and higher education in 2023.

During the first half of 2024, there were a total of 18,737 data requests for X (formerly Twittter) account information from governments with 3,329 of these were requested by the United States government. A further 2,726 were requested by the Japanese government, while 7,872 were requested by the European Union. Overall, 52.82 percent of these requests resulted in data being disclosed to the relevant authorities.

How does Truth Social compare to other social media platforms? There are around 2 million active Truth Social users.

As of February 2025, men accounted for 63 percent of X, formerly Twitter, users in the United States. Additionally, the U.S. was home to the world's largest Twitter audience, with over 105 million users in early 2024.

The Annual Respondents Database X (ARDx) has been created to allow users of Annual Respondents Database (ARD) (held at the UK Data Archive under SN 6644) to continue analysis even though the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI) which was used to create ARD ceased in 2008. ARDx contains harmonised variables from 1997 to 2020.

ARDx is created from two ONS surveys, the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI; 1998-2008, held at the UK Data Archive under SN 6644) and the Annual Business Survey (ABS; 2009 onwards, held at the UK Data Archive under SN 7451). The ABI has an employment survey (ABI1) and a second survey for financial information (ABI2). ABS only collects financial data, and so is supplemented with employment data from the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES; 2009 onwards, held at the UK Data Archive under SN 7463).

ARDx consists of six types of files: 'respondent files' which have reported and derived information from survey questionnaire responses; and 'universe files' which contain limited information on all business that are within scope of the ABI/ABS. These files are provided at both the Reporting Unit and Local Unit levels. There are also 'register panel' and "capital stock" files.

Linking to other business studies
These data contain Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) reference numbers. These are anonymous but unique reference numbers assigned to business organisations. Their inclusion allows researchers to combine different business survey sources together. Researchers may consider applying for other business data to assist their research.

For the fifth edition (December 2023), ARDx Version 4.0 for 1997-2020 has been provided, replacing Version 3. Coverage has thus been expanded to include 1997 and 2015-2020.

Note to users
Due to the limited nature of the documentation available for ARDx, users are advised to consult the documentation for the Annual Business Survey (UK Data Archive SN 7451) for detailed information about the data.

For Secure Lab projects applying for access to this study as well as to SN 6697 Business Structure Database and/or SN 7683 Business Structure Database Longitudinal, only postcode-free versions of the data will be made available.

The new version of these data is in GPM-like format (consistent with the GPM Dual-frequency Radar data format), and can be found under the name GPM_3PR. This product consists of monthly statistics of the PR measurements at both a low (5 degrees x 5 degrees) and a high (0.5 degrees x 0.5 degrees) horizontal resolution. The low resolution grids are in the Planetary Grid 1 structure and include 1) mean and standard deviation of the rain rate, reflectivity, path-integrated attenuation (PIA), storm height, Xi, bright band height and the NUBF (Non-Uniform Beam Filling) correction; 2) rain fractions; 3) histograms of the storm height, bright-band height, snow-ice layer, reflectivity, rain rate, path-attenuation and NUBF correction; 4) correlation coefficients. The high resolution grids are in the Planetary Grid 2 structure and contain mean rain rate along with standard deviation and rain fractions.