A new study from the Pew Research Center noted that out of 25% of adult Americans using Twitter, 33% tweet about politics, up from 13% in 2019. The report highlighted that while only 24% of American Twitter users are aged 50 or above, they produce a massive 78% of the political content on the platform.
Older users also tweet about politics more (36%) than their 18-to-49-year-old counterparts (7%).
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41% of surveyed users said that a lot of the content they see on Twitter is political, and 36% of them said their feed is somewhat political.
When it comes to posting, users said only 12% of their posts are political in nature. In fact, only 8% of the stuff they tweet are original thoughts related to politics, as compared to 44% retweets, 42% quote tweets, and 26% replies.
The survey also dived into habits of US-based Twitter users on their …
