6%), and more than three times as likely to say user bans are a major problem (59% vs. However, Republican Twitter users are roughly 10 times as likely as Democrats to say banning users from the platform is a major problem (61% vs. users say Twitter limiting the visibility of certain posts is a major problem, and 25% say the same about banning users from the platform. Republican Twitter users are far more likely than Democrats to say it’s a major problem that Twitter limits the visibility of certain posts or bans users from the platform.
About one-in-five Twitter users (21%) say they have posted something on the site that they later regretted sharing. And comparable shares consider who can see these things (53%) or whether that activity portrays them in a positive light to others (49%).įor some users, these concerns are not just hypothetical. Still, more than half of Twitter users (54%) consider whether the content they post publicly on Twitter could be used against them in the future before doing something that might be visible to other people on the site. Most users assume their tweets have a very limited audience: The majority (67%) think only a few people see their content, and 21% think nobody sees it. adult Twitter users think nobody sees their tweets. Republican Twitter users are more likely than Democrats to say they come across a lot of inaccurate or misleading information (45% vs. Meanwhile, the vast majority of Twitter users (91%) say they come across at least some inaccurate or misleading information on the platform, and 33% say they come across a lot of this sort of content. The majority of adult Twitter users have not experienced harassing or abusing behavior on the site, but 17% say this has happened to them personally. have experienced harassing or abusive behavior on the platform, and a third say they see a lot of inaccurate or misleading information there. 28%).Īround one-in-five adult Twitter users in the U.S. Republican Twitter users, in turn, are roughly twice as likely as Democratic users to say the site is bad for American democracy (60% vs. By contrast, retweets of other posts make up almost half of all posts (46%) from more frequent tweeters, versus only 26% of those from less active tweeters.ĭemocratic and Republican Twitter users differ in their views of the platform’s impact on democracy. Almost half of Twitter users who are Democrats or who lean Democratic (47%) say Twitter is mostly good for American democracy, but only 17% of Republicans and Republican leaners say so. They account for roughly half of their tweets (51%), compared with 30% of those sent by more frequent tweeters.
Replies to other users are the most common type of tweet by infrequent tweeters. Infrequent and frequent tweeters tend to tweet in different ways. adults who use Twitter, the top 25% of users by tweet volume produce 97% of all tweets, while the bottom 75% of users produce just 3%, according to an analysis conducted over a three-month period in 2021. Some 42% of adults ages 18 to 29 say they use it, compared with just 7% of those 65 and older – a difference of 35 points.Ī minority of Twitter users produce the vast majority of tweets. adults under 30 are more likely than older Americans to use Twitter. Around a third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (32%) report using Twitter, 15 percentage points more than the share of Republicans and Republican leaners who say the same (17%).Īlso, U.S. adults use YouTube (81%), Facebook (69%) and Instagram (40%).ĭemocrats are more likely than Republicans to use Twitter.
The share of Americans who use the platform has remained consistent over the past several years and is similar to the share who use Snapchat (25%) and WhatsApp (23%). It also includes results of a Center analysis of Twitter users’ behaviors and activities on the site.Īll of the polls and other findings referenced here – including each survey’s mode, field dates and sample size – are available through the links in this analysis.Īround one-in-five U.S. This analysis uses data from several Pew Research Center surveys to provide insights into who uses Twitter and their experiences with the platform. Social media, and Twitter in particular, have become ubiquitous in American life.