This statistic displays the uses of Twitter in the United Kingdom in 2013, broken down by gender. In 2013, 53 percent of female respondents reported using Twitter to follow celebrities, while 47 percent of male respondents used Twitter to follow sports news.
Which of these categories do you use Twitter for?*
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