Learning from 36 million Twitter users

The social media monitor company Beevolve has studied 36 million Twitter user profiles around the world to produce some interesting Twitter trends and statistics.

• 25% of Twitter users have never tweeted
• On average a Twitter user follows 102 people
• 10% of users follow no-one
• An average Twitter user has 208 followers
• 6% of Twitter accounts have no followers
• Overall gender split - 53% female; 47% male
• Female Twitter users outnumber males up to age 25. But after age 35, female users start dwindling relative to males.

• US             51%
• UK             17%
• Australia       4%
• Brazil            3%
• Canada         3%
• India             3%
• France          2%
• Indonesia      1%
• Iran              1%
• Ireland          1%