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> A fraction of the population of the UK are on twitter This is not a very useful statistic, given that it's always going to be true (0% and 100% would both be
by johnday 5y ago
> A fraction of the population of the UK are on twitter
This is not a very useful statistic, given that it's always going to be true (0% and 100% would both be "a fraction of the population").
For some actual numbers, there look to be around 17 million Twitter users in the UK, or around a quarter of the population.
- heurisko 5y agoIt's not a statistic, rather it's an idiom, meaning "a small part of". If US statistics are anything to go by, then it will be 10pc of those 17 million, sending 80pc of tweets, so the media is primarily focusing on what a very vocal 2.5pc are thinking. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-users/ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw...
- ChrisRR 5y agoIf the last year has taught us anything, it's that how many people 2% actually is