In my latest “By the Numbers” post, I dug up a bunch of interesting Twitter stats and facts for your reading pleasure including how many people use Twitter, work for Twitter, Twitter revenue and much more.
Twitter is a social network that sees 100 million users login daily, so there is plenty of data to collect and list here. I really enjoy researching and posting these types of digital marketing stats and judging from the comments, emails and tweets, you seem to enjoy reading them.
Twitter Facts
- Launch Date: July 15, 2006
- Founders: Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, Ev Williams
- Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
- Twitter iPhone app: App Page
- Twitter Android app: App Page
- Number of Twitter Employees: 3,898
- CEO: Jack Dorsey
- Key Subsidiaries: Periscope, MoPub
Twitter Stats
How many people use Twitter?
321 million MAU
Last updated 1/1/19
Total number of Twitter Quarterly Active Accounts:
Last updated 11/6/16
Total number of Twitter Yearly Active Accounts:
Last updated 11/6/16
Estimated Total Number of Twitter Registered Users:
1.3 billion
Last updated 8/3/15
Unique monthly visitors to Twitter.com (desktop & mobile):
Last updated 11/20/15
Average number of monthly visitors to Twitter that do not log in:
Last updated 12/10/15
Daily Active Twitter Users:
Last updated 1/1/19
Average Number of Followers per Twitter User:
707
Last updated 6/23/16
Number of people tweets reach each month on 3rd party properties:
Last updated 6/1/17
Number of Twitter users in the US:
66 million MAU
Last updated 1/1/19
Percentage of Twitter MAUs located in the U.S.:
20.5%
Last updated 1/1/19
Estimated number of active Twitter users in China (even though it is blocked):
Last updated 7/11/16
Percentage of world leaders that use Twitter:
92%
Last updated 5/31/17
Number of world leaders that are active on Twitter:
276
Last updated 5/31/17
Top world leader on Twitter:
Donald Trump
Last updated 7/29/18
Percentage of millennials in the U.S. that have a Twitter account:
Last updated 1/16/16
Number of Twitter monthly active users outside the US:
255 million
Last updated 1/1/19
Fastest Twitter account to reach 1 million followers:
Last updated 12/10/15
Percentage of Twitter verified accounts that are journalists:
approx 300,000
Last updated 7/29/18
Number of terrorism-related accounts that Twitter has suspended to date:
Last updated 8/19/16
Percentage of Twitter users that are gamers:
Last updated 6/6/16
Percentage of Twitter users that play video games regularly:
Last updated 6/6/16
Percentage of UK teens (11-16 year olds) that use Twitter weekly:
Last updated 3/18/15
Percentage the global population that uses Twitter:
Last updated 10/25/16
Number of Twitter users in the UK:
Last updated 4/17/15
Percentage of social media users in the UK that use Twitter:
Last updated 4/17/15
Number of Fake Twitter Users suspended in 2018 cleanup:
Percentage of Twitter users that are bots:
Last updated 3/11/17
Average times a month Twitter users shop online:
Last updated 3/26/15
Twitter user following the most other users:
@ArabicBest (2.41 million following)
Last updated 1/23/15
Percentage of the US population that uses Twitter:
Last updated 10/25/16
Percentage of people in Finland that use Twitter:
Last updated 1/20/15
Number of Twitter users in Japan:
Last updated 11/4/16
Percentage of social media users in Japan that use Twitter:
Last updated 5/4/15
Percentage of internet users in Japan that use Twitter:
Last updated 7/13/15
Percentage of social media users in India that use Twitter:
Last updated 5/4/15
Number of Twitter users in India:
Last updated 1/27/15
Percentage of Canadian social network users that use Twitter daily:
Last updated 2/4/15
Percentage of Canadian social network users that use Twitter monthly:
Last updated 2/4/15
Percentage of Canadian female social media users that have a Twitter account:
Last updated 2/5/15
Percentage of Canadian male social media users that have a Twitter account:
Last updated 2/5/15
Percentage of all US social media users that use Twitter:
Last updated 1/9/15
Number of daily Twitter users in the Netherlands:
Last updated 4/1/15
Most followed Twitter user:
Katy Perry (85 million followers)
Last updated 3/20/16
Percentage of teens in France that use Twitter:
Last updated 4/2/15
Percentage of Social Media users in the Middle East that use Twitter:
Last updated 4/20/15
Percentage of Twitter users that consider themselves early adopters:
Last updated 1/14/16
Number of verified Twitter accounts:
Last updated 3/31/17
This report is available in an annual industry report. Some of the data in industry reports include:
- User Totals
- Demographics
- Tweet Stats
- Stats for Businesses
- Mobile Stats
- Advertising Stats
- Etc.- all in one place
I try to go through each and every stat regularly and update as much as possible, but we all know that some stats are easier to track down than others. As always, every stat is linked to its original source and has the source date listed.
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