Twitter users in the USA they are younger and better educated than the general population

Twitter users in the United States are younger, better educated and identify more with the left than the general population, a survey showed on Wednesday.

The Pew Research Center study found that those who use the micro-blogging platform are more likely to belong to higher-income groups, but their gender and racial or ethnic composition is very similar to the adult population as a whole.

The analysis indicates that 22% of adult Americans use Twitter, far from the 69% used by the social network Facebook.

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Twitter users are younger, more like to identify with Democrats, have more education and have more income than a US adult in general, says the Pew study.

The average age of Americans who use Twitter is 40 years, seven less than the average age of the general population.

The survey indicates that 42% of adult Twitter users have at least a baccalaureate, compared to 31% of the general public.

And 41% have family incomes above $ 75,000, nine points more than the general population.

The researchers found that 36% of respondents identified themselves with the Democratic Party, compared with 30% of all US adults, while 21% said they identified with Republicans, in contrast to 26% of respondents. total of the American population.

Only 14% of Twitter users identified their political vision as "very conservative" compared to 25% of the general population.

A similar proportion of Twitter users and American adults identified themselves as "very liberal".

The survey found that 90% of Twitter users rarely tweet, while 10% of active people are responsible for 80% of Twitter messages transmitted by Americans.The average Twitter user posts two tweets per month, follows 89 accounts and has 25 followers.

"Active" users are more likely to be women, who represent more than 65% of this group, and more likely to tweet about politics, according to researchers.

The poll comes amid intense pressure from President Donald Trump and his Republican allies who allege that Twitter and other social networks are biased against conservatives, a claim that companies reject outright.

Pew surveyed 2,791 American adults in November and December 2018 who were willing to share their Twitter handling. The margin of error of the study was estimated at 3%.