Countries with the most Twitter users 2022

Social network Twitter is particularly popular in the United States, where as of January 2022, the microblogging service had audience reach of 76.9 million users. Japan and the India were ranked second and third with more than 58 and 23.6 million users respectively.

Global Twitter usage

As of the second quarter of 2021, Twitter had 206 million monetizable daily active users worldwide. The most-followed Twitter accounts include celebrities such as Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and former U.S. president Barack Obama.

Twitter and politics

Twitter has become an increasingly relevant tool in domestic and international politics. The platform has become a way to promote policies and interact with citizens and other officials, and most world leaders and foreign ministries have an official Twitter account. Former U.S. president Donald Trump used to be a prolific Twitter user before the platform permanently suspended his account in January 2021. During an August 2018 survey, 61 percent of respondents stated that Trump's use of Twitter as President of the United States was inappropriate.