Twitter has about 400 million users.

• 75% are outside the U.S., and about 100 million are in the U.S.
• About 37 million in the U.S. use Twitter every day or about 11% of the population, but another figure says half of U.S. users access Twitter daily – which would be about 15%.
• About 7% of all global Internet users access Twitter at least once per month.
• The top 10% of Twitter users account for 92% of all tweets.
• There are about 2x more men using Twitter, than women.
• Nearly 2 in 3 years are between age 25 and 49.
• The top accounts, by number of followers, are mostly celebrities and celebrity politicians.

More data here: https://financesonline.com/number-of-twitter-users/

Relatively few people are very active on Twitter – again the top 10% of users account for 90+% of all Tweets.

Tragically, using social media is likely bad for our mental health and increases depression and anxiety.

Social media also encourages an increase in anger and outrage: “Social media platforms like Twitter amplify expressions of moral outrage over time because users learn such language gets rewarded with an increased number of “likes” and “shares,” a new Yale University study shows.”

Thus, social media is an outrage amplifier. The result is increased anger and unfortunately, a seemingly normalization of anger and being angry. Anger, in turn, is a few steps away from becoming violent (actual violence, not the “speech is violence” silliness). Literally, “Social Media Makes Us Angrier – and More Extreme“.

My view is that Twitter emphasizes very short texts, relatively few images or videos – and far greater use of anonymous accounts – the combination of anonymity and short texts out of context leads to more expression of outrage, more hurtful messages, leading to misunderstandings and shouting matches and ridicule.

The primary purpose of Twitter is to leave a trail of breadcrumbs for someone to data mine in the future – then getting them in trouble or merely twisting words from the past, out of context, because someone in the present has an outrage problem.