This page is updated weekly to show the latest and upcoming 𝕏/Twitter features (and news), facts and statistics.
Latest 𝕏/Twitter Changes
Upcoming
This section contains upcoming changes to 𝕏/Twitter
Search button profile pages on web
𝕏/Twitter is working on adding a search button to profiles on web.
Source: Lohan Simpson
Stop video auto-play
𝕏/Twitter is working an “auto-advance” feature where you can choose to enable auto-play or not
Source: Lohan Simpson
Disable links in replies
𝕏/Twitter is working on a feature to disable links in post replies.
Source: Swak
Send files in DMs
This feature will take a long time because it was requested by a user so a month 0r two
Source: Elon Musk
Group calls
This will allow 𝕏/Twitter users to start and join group calls.
Source: Swak
𝕏/Twitter HQ will be moving to Austin
After the new bill in San Francisco, Elon announced that 𝕏/Twitter HQ will be moving to Austin.
Source: Elon Musk
Custom thumbnail for videos
This feature will allow users to set a custom thumbnail when uploading videos.
Source: Nima Owji
Grok analysis button
This feature will allow premium users to use Grok to analyze tweets and get summaries.
Source: xDaily
Edit sent messages in DMs
Soon you will be able to edit sent messages in DMs
Source: Andrea Conway
Payments
𝕏 is now working on payments within the app. A step Elon has mentioned towards becoming the everything app.
Source: Swak
New changes
This section contains changes that are already implemented on 𝕏/Twitter
Bold font, italics and all other text formatting has been removed from the timeline
Fron now on all text formatting such as bold and italic fonts are not visible in the timeline until a post is clicked.
Source: Elon Musk
Reply button on posts has been moved to the top
The reply button that used to be below a post has now been moved on top
Source: Elon Musk
Gift premium subscriptions to other users
You can now gift premiums subscriptions to other users.
Source: Swak
Analyze images with Grok
Grok now accepts images so you can upload images to Grok and ask it questions based on the image.
Source: xDaily
Custom video title when uploading
You can now set a custom video title for your videos right when you are uploading the video
Source: Lohan Simpson
Search in bookmarks
You can now search for tweets in your bookmarks
Source: Andrea Conway
Private likes
Privates likes hides the people who liked a post. Only the number of likes is shown.
Source: X Engineering
Inline post expansion
On mobile, you can now expand a post by clicking ‘Show more’ without opening the whole post (tweet)
Source: xDaily
Search filters on mobile
Advanced search is a powerful feature on the web and now the mobile app also has a few filters for search
Source: Andrea Conway
Reply sorting
Now you can filter replies and choose between most relevant, most recent and most liked
Facts and Statistics
𝕏/Twitter’s user base stands at 335.7 million in 2024.
Statistics show that Twitter/𝕏 has 335 million users in 2024 which is a decrease from 2022 when it had 368 million active users.
Despite the decrease we will see that Twitter/𝕏 still is among the best platform to build your brand as we will see in the next fact and others as well.
𝕏/Twitter gets about 259.4 million visits every day
Despite the decrease of about 33 million users since Elon Musk took over, Twitter/𝕏 gets about 259 million visits every day. Meaning that there are loyal users who come back to Twitter/𝕏 every day
In the US, 𝕏/Twitter Has 105.42 million users making it the leading country with the most users
If we look at the US alone, 105.42 million people have a Twitter/𝕏 account as of April 2024 making the leading country with the most Twitter/𝕏 users.
The second country with the most Twitter/𝕏 users is Japan with 69.28 million users followed by India with 25.45 million users.
Source: Statista
𝕏/Twitter has the largest gender gap of any social platform with 60.9% male users
As of 2024, Twitter/𝕏 has 60.9% male users and only 39.1% female users making it a social platform with the largest gender gap. It is also the platform with the largest number of male users.
70% of US adults have seen or heard Twitter change its name to 𝕏
70% of US adults in the survey have seen or heard Twitter changing its name to 𝕏. This means 30% have not heard anything about the change and may not understand when people mention 𝕏. This is why its better to clarify when mentioning 𝕏.
43% of 𝕏/Twitter users think changing the name to X is a big mistake
43% of Twitter/𝕏 users who participated in the survey think that Twitter changing its name to X is a big mistake. This because for a number of reasons such as Twitter brand carried a lot of meaning and X or more specifically 𝕏 is a weird name to write as well as pronounce.
The most followed Twitter/𝕏 account is Elon Musk
Elon Musk is the most followed account with 184 million followers at the time of writing surpassing former US president Barack Obama with 131 million followers.
More than 500 million tweets are posted every day
The first tweet was posted back in Marchi 21, 2006 by Jack Dorsey, the creator of Twitter/𝕏. Since then Twitter/𝕏 has grown a lot and has gotten many users to the extent that every day on average 500 million tweets are posted.
Users can publish up to 2,400 tweets each day
Twitter/𝕏 allows its users to post up to 2,400 tweets and retweets (posts and reposts). The limit is very high and it’s near impossible to reach that limit for just normal uses
10% of 𝕏/Twitter users are responsible for 92% of tweets
Most Twitter/𝕏 users do not tweet a lot and are there to consume content. 10% of the users are responsible for more than 90% of the tweets. What does this mean for creators and new creators? It means there are less creators and more consumers. More reason for you to create content.
Elon Musk bought 𝕏/Twitter for $44 billion
After a long negotiation process, Elon Musk finally bought Twitter for $44 billion on October 22, 2022. Since then he has made many changes to the platform all in favor of Twitter/𝕏 becoming the every thing app.
Users spend an average of 30 minutes per day on 𝕏/Twitter
This equates to 3.5 hours a week or more than 15 hours a month.
This is an increase from previous years when it was still averaging around 20 minutes daily usage for users.
48% of users turn to 𝕏/Twitter to get the latest news
We turn to social media for different users. For 48% of Twitter/𝕏 users, it is to get the latest news. This is not a surprise because since the beginning Twitter/𝕏 has been considered a “formal/political” platform.
1.7 million users sign up on 𝕏/Twitter
XData, the account which shares numbers about Twitter/𝕏 has reported that 1.7 million users join on Twitter/𝕏 every day. This is good news for creators and brands because new users keep joining the platform.
6.4 million spaces have been created from the beginning of 2024 till April 2024.
Audio is a huge thing and from January to April 2024 alone 6.4 million spaces have been created. This is not a surprise because Twitter/𝕏 Spaces competed with Clubhouse and it emerged to be the winner.
The top 4 conversation topics in 2023 were sports, music, food, and gaming
Sporst, gaming, food and gaming have been the top 4 topics on Twitter/𝕏 in 2023. This is good news for creators or brands who focus on one of these things.
80% of 𝕏/Twitter user sessions include watching video
4 out of 5 Twitter/𝕏 users watch videos when they open the app. Twitter/𝕏 now has a dedicated video page that makes it easy for people to watch videos. It’s like Instagram reels page or TikTok feed page.
𝕏/Twitter is the first app to have a single letter in the App Store listing
App Store has strict rule of app names to start from 2 characters. Twitter/𝕏 is the first app to have a single letter name on the App Store
𝕏/Twitter usage reached an all time high of 417 billion user-seconds after Trump’s assassination attempt
𝕏/Twitter received an all time high usage after Donald Trump’s assassination attempt on July 14, 2024.
𝕏/Twitter was the first platform the US President Joe Biden chose to announce that he’s dropping out
Despite many people saying that 𝕏/Twitter is no longer relevant, President Joe Biden choose to announce that he’s dropping out on 𝕏/Twitter first. Even some of his staff found out from the 𝕏/Twitter announcement.
