Yesterday, I saw this chart [1] from Twitter's Q2 2016 earnings report, and noticed that US users are only 21% of Twitter's 313 million monthly active users. Pr

Yesterday, I saw this chart [1] from Twitter's Q2 2016 earnings report, and noticed that US users are only 21% of Twitter's 313 million monthly active users. Presumably, other anglocentric (ie. posting in English about topics relevant to English speakers) users push this figure much higher than 21%, but: Does the kind of posting culture the author writes extend to the international, non-anglocentric portion of the audience? I'm not entirely convinced it does. For example Twitter is very popular in Turkey, where it's part of social culture [2][3], and while a great deal of 'western' content is consumed, most of the user-generated discourse is either casual or latently political. Trying to find English-speaking media covering abuse on Turkish Twitter only lead me to this article [4] about a political clique harassing users about political stances, and that was a sponsored effort, not 'organic' acts by self-organizing users. Twitter is also fairly popular in Japan [5], where pop culture phenomena drive much of the engagement. While I agree with nearly all of the points presented in this analysis, I'm just not sure it represents most of Twitter's non-US userbase, which is significantly larger in aggregate than its US users. [1] http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5797c8ca88e4a71b008badb3-960/twitter.png http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5797c8ca88e4a71b008... [2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomwatson/2014/03/25/turkeys-twitter-ban-shutting-down-technology-or-social-culture/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomwatson/2014/03/25/turkeys-twi... [3] https://www.socialbakers.com/statistics/twitter/profiles/turkey/ https://www.socialbakers.com/statistics/twitter/profiles/tur... [4] http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/turkey-twitter-trolls/ http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/turkey-twitter-trolls/ [5] http://mashable.com/2013/10/22/japan-loves-twitter/ http://mashable.com/2013/10/22/japan-loves-twitter/