Twitter had 100 million active users logging in at least once a month and 50 million active users every day. In an article published on January 6, 2012, Twitter was confirmed to be the biggest social media network in Japan, with Facebook following closely in second. comScore confirmed this, stating that Japan was the only country in the world where Twitter leads Facebook. On March 31, 2014, Twitter announced there were 255 million monthly active users (MAUs) and 198 million mobile MAUs. In 2013, there were over 100 million users actively using Twitter daily and about 500 million Tweets every day,
Use of Twitter by public figures he talked about how one can use one's Twitter fame as a form of cultural capital that can be leveraged. However, for celebrity users Twitter has proven to be a double-edged sword. Along with the laudatory comments from fans come hostile attacks from anonymous people; fan goodwill and even career opportunities can be lost through tweets; and several celebrities (Ashton Kutcher over a tweet about Joe Paterno, Courtney Love, and Chris Brown) have encountered trouble (in Love's case, sued) because of things that they have said on Twitter. Many celebrities do not actually maintain their own accounts; rather, the accounts