How Twitter Users Compare to the General Public

Most users rarely tweet, but the most prolific 10% create 80% of tweets from adult U.S. users

 

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Twitter is a modern public square where many voices discuss, debate and share their views. Twitter users are younger, more educated and more likely to be Democrats than general public

U.S. adult Twitter users differ in significant ways from the overall U.S. adult population. Twitter users more likely to be Democrats

Twitter users are more likely to identify with the Democratic Party compared with U.S. adults more generally: 36% do so, compared with 30% of U.S. adults, according to a national survey of all adults conducted in November 2018.

Source: www.pewinternet.org