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title: Twitter useful facts & statistics
description: Twitter findings and interesting statistics that can drive your business decisions and help you in social media marketing.
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# [Twitter useful facts & statistics](https://www.globalyogi.me/blog/twitter-useful-facts-statistics)

 Written by [Yogi](https://www.globalyogi.me/blog/author/secureadmin) | Oct 6, 2016 3:22:22 AM

## User Demographics

- Twitter has close to 320 million users
- Twitter major user base is outside USA, which amounts to 79 percent
- Average monthly users on twitter was 255 million, which has constantly been growing
- Twitter's average time per user is 17 min every month
- Surprisingly grandparents are Growing Demographic on Twitter.
- 92 Percent of top businesses tweet at least once everyday
- According to recent twitter stats 20 percent of their users login once every day and 40 percent login once every month.
- In USA 50 percent of twitter users are under the age of 35 years

 

## Percentage of internet users who use twitter

- Gender: Under this category 25 % are men and 21% are women users, whereas [among all the facebook users,](https://www.globalyogi.me/blog/unknown-and-useful-facebook-statistics-for-marketer) 66% are men and 77% are women.
- Ethnicity: White, Non -Hispanic 20%, Black, Non-Hispanic 28% and Hispanic 28%.
- Age group: People with age group 18-29 are highest in this category with 32% and least age group is 65+ with only 6%.
- Educational Background: High school grad or less 19% and college+ with 27%.
- Income group: people with highest income are 26% and people with lower income are 21%.
- Geographical location: People living in urban areas are using Twitter about 30% and Rural areas with 15%.

## Other important social media statistics you should know:

- <https://www.globalyogi.me/blog/unknown-and-important-linkedin-statistics>
  
  <https://www.globalyogi.me/blog/unknown-and-important-linkedin-statistics>[LinkedIn Stats](https://www.globalyogi.me/blog/unknown-and-important-linkedin-statisticsLinkedin%20Stats)
- [Youtube Stats](https://www.globalyogi.me/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-youtube-users-and-statistics)
- [Facebook Stats](https://www.globalyogi.me/blog/unknown-and-useful-facebook-statistics-for-marketer)
- [Google Stats](https://www.globalyogi.me/blog/unknown-and-useful-google-statistics-for-marketers)
- [Pinterest Stats](https://www.globalyogi.me/blog/pinterest-statistics-every-marketing-professional-should-know)
- [Instagram stats](https://www.globalyogi.me/blog/-instagram-stats-before-you-start-instagram-marketing)

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