a large minority majority of tweets come from a small large minority majority of tweeters Share ofall tweets from U.S. adult users created by
The most active 10% of adult Twitter users in the U.S. produce 80% of all tweets sent by these users. The median adult user of the platform tweets just twice a month, but a small group tweets much more frequently, according to our April study. There was an even starker pattern in a follow-up study that looked specifically at tweets about national politics. In that study, 97% of tweets that were created by U.S. adults and mentioned national politics came from just 10% of users.
a large minority majority of tweets come from a  | small large minority majority of tweeters  | Share ofall tweets from U.S. adult users created by  | Top 10%  | Bottom 90%  | tweeters  | tweeters  | 80%  | 20%  | ALL TWEETS FROM U.S USERS  | Note: No institutional accounts are included.  | Source Survey of U.S adult Twitter users conducted Nov. 21- Dec  | 17, 2018 Data about respondents' Twitter activity collected via  | Twitter API.  | Sizing Up Twitter Users  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 