X/Twitter has distinct demos that are not indicative of the larger U.S. population. According to data from Aug. 2023, users are split almost exactly at a 2:1 ratio among males (66.72%) & females (33.28%). The proportion of X users has grown by almost 4% since January 2023. 🧵
1/ As of April 2024, the US has the largest proportion of X users with 22.92%. Combined, the US & Japan have around 39% of all X users.
While US, Japan, the UK, Brazil, Spain make up almost half (51.85%) of X’s user base.
2/No country has more X users than the US with around 100 million.
3/In March 2024, there were 1.6 billion unique X visitors.Below, is a breakdown of their habits on X:
✅ Time Spent on X: Each avg X visit lasts 24 minutes and 59 seconds.
✅ However, total avg spent on X is 34 minutes and 48 seconds.
4/ Around 500 million posts are sent per day. The 10% of X users are responsible for 92% of all posts. These active users also post 157 times per month - this is compared to just one post per month for the average US adult on X.
5/ News (48%) and entertainment (48%) are the most popular reasons for using X.
Here’s a list of reasons people use X:
6/ X preferences: According to DataReportal’s 2023 data, 99.9% of X users also use another social media platform.
7/ The biggest overlap comes from Instagram, where 86.8% of X users also have an account – this is closely followed by Facebook (82.4%). Here are the most popular social media platforms for X users:
8/ As of Aril 2024, 6 accounts have over 100 million followers.
And for all of the BRICS fans out there…
Because we know where Elon Musk’s interests really lie —
The top 10 countries by X users:
10/X Users By Age. Here is the real
Kicker. So, Qlon, the Grand Poobah of Gen- X wants to market right wing extremism to:
✅ The majority (around 58%) of X users are under 35 years old.
11/ Since the majority of X users (58%) fall under age 35, they straddle both Gen-Y “Digital Natives” and the Gen-Z “Centennial Generation” with the following characteristics:
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The Crypto Betting Platform on X Predicting a Trump Win. Polymarket has seen a recent surge in pro-Trump election bets. Is it the movement of a rational market or a concerted campaign? #Election2024 🧵
Polymarket’s user base, which leans libertarian & crypto-savvy, may skew toward Trump owing to dissatisfaction with the current admin’s stance on digital assets. It’s backers include Peter Thiel, who donated to Trump’s 2016 campaign. fortune.com/2024/10/22/tru…
2/ Why Trump-backing betting market Polymarket might be a scam
What’s in it for buying an election for a racist fascist psychopath? Look what $100M will buy:
✅ Tax breaks
✅ Oversight over regulations on his own companies
✅ Hall pass to breakFEC laws that prohibit fed contractors from donating for political purposes nytimes.com/2024/10/20/us/…
Former Republican lawmakers and Justice Department officials have called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate tech billionaire Elon Musk for awarding cash prizes to voters in swing states if they sign his political organization’s petition. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Federal govt contractors are prohibited from making contributions or expenditures, or promising to make any such contribution or expenditure, to any political party, committee, or candidate for fed office, or to any person for any political purpose or use. fec.gov/help-candidate…
Central to #Project2025’s sweeping goals is the desire to shift the balance of power towards the presidency by placing the entire fed bureaucracy, including independent agencies such as FBI & DOJ, under direct executive control. 🧵 theconversation.com/project-2025-w…
1/ Such a move would enable the next president to direct these agencies at his bidding, to be able to “impound” monies voted by Congress and redirect them for its own purposes and to SIDELINE the legislative branch of government. forbes.com/sites/alisondu…
2/ Another key enabler of this strategy is to replace career civil servants to ensure that they do not obstruct the White House’s radical agenda, & replace them w/Trump supporters. An analysis by the AP suggests that 50,000 fed workers losing their jobs. apnews.com/article/electi…
Republicans campaign of lies and blowback on drug pricing reform is literally fueled by BIG Pharma contributions. In the 2020 election cycle, Rep. Elise Stefanik received $67,956 from the pharmaceutical/health products industry. She’s received an additional $6,043 for 2022. 🧵
ICYMI: Sen. Elizabeth Warren asks Tesla’s board $TSLA to probe Elon Musk’s potential conflicts of interest via Fortune 🧵 fortune.com/2024/08/09/tes…
In a 10-page letter sent to Tesla $TSLA Chair Robyn Denholm, the Democratic senator said Musk’s activities — like diverting computer chips from the carmaker to his social media company X Corp. — may be inappropriate. warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
2/Musk acknowledged in June he sent the graphics processing units to X and artificial intelligence venture xAI Corp., saying they would have otherwise sat in a warehouse. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Elon Musk America PAC being investigated by Michigan secretary of state for potential violations. 🧵 cnbc.com/2024/08/04/elo…
1/Top Organizations Disclosing Donations to America PAC (Texas), 2024 include Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Alliance Resource Partners, Londsdale Enterprises, Valor Equity Partners and Winklevoss Capital Management. opensecrets.org/outside-spendi…
2/Top individual contributors to the Elon Musk America SuperPAC include Joe Craft, the Coal Baron who gave $1M.
Source: Open Secrets Org. opensecrets.org/outside-spendi…