Who U.S. Adults Follow on TikTok
American TikTok users follow far more pop culture and entertainment accounts than news and politics ones.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
American TikTok users follow far more pop culture and entertainment accounts than news and politics ones.
64% of Americans live within 2 miles of a public electric vehicle charging station, and those who live closest to chargers view EVs more positively.
A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
88% of Americans say marijuana should be legal for medical or recreational use. Just 11% say the drug should not be legal in any form.
74% of Americans live in a state where marijuana is legal for either recreational or medical use.
About half of all U.S. adults who use TikTok have never posted a video themselves. And the top 25% of U.S. adults on the site by posting volume produce 98% of all publicly accessible videos from this group. Users who have posted videos are generally more active on the platform than non-posters.
Thousands of guests appeared on the top-ranked podcasts in 2022, but a relatively small number accounted for a majority of appearances. 76% of top-ranked podcasts brought on at least one guest in 2022, and 27% almost always or regularly featured guests.
Although especially common in California and Texas, Mexican restaurants are found in a large majority of counties in the U.S.
An estimated 990,000 Hispanics of Spanish origin – those who are immigrants from or trace their family ancestry to Spain – resided in the United States in 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
As Elon Musk rebrands Twitter to “X,” here are eight facts about Americans’ use of the social media platform.
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