These users make up just 6% of all U.S. adults with public accounts, but they account for 73% of tweets from adults that mention politics.
The findings of this analysis paint a nuanced picture of just how prevalent political speech is among U.S. adults on Twitter.
Getting news from social media is an increasingly common experience; nearly three-in-ten U.S. adults do so often.
Millennials have often led older Americans in their adoption and use of technology. But there has also been significant growth in tech adoption in recent years among older generations.
Smartphone users in emerging economies – especially those who use social media – tend to be more exposed to people with different backgrounds and more connected with friends they don’t see in person.
Well before the 2020 election, many U.S. social media users are already exhausted by how many political posts they see on these platforms.
Around one-in-five U.S. adults say they use Twitter. Users tend to be younger and to have more education and higher incomes than adults overall.
An analysis of every YouTube video posted by high-subscriber channels in the first week of 2019 finds that children’s content – as well as content featuring children – received more views than other videos.
Republican and Republican-leaning adult Twitter users are more likely than Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents to follow Trump.
Americans have complicated views about the role social media companies should play in removing offensive content from their platforms.
