President Donald Trump is the first president to employ Twitter of this magnitude. He uses the platform to make announcements, promote his policies, attack his opponents, dismiss senior advisers, and enjoy the mess of responses and Twitter. It is clear that Twitter has also become a platform for all opponents of its style and policy.
Twenty-two percent of adults in the United States use Twitter, 55 percent of them strongly opposed to the president, according to new data from the Pew Research Center, and this group of people has a strong influence on Twitter.
Figures show that those who strongly oppose Trump are responsible for 80% of all tweets in the United States, and 72% of tweets about national politics last year.
15% of Twitter users who strongly support Trump produced 11% of all tweets, and 25% of tweets about national politics.
The study found that the vast majority (97%) of tweets about national politics came from only 10% of the most active Twitter users.
This does not mean that politics is the only thing they are talking about, or that these topics dominate the public conversation on Twitter, where political tweets represent only 13% of total tweets.
However, the fact that Twitter is dominated by people who disagree with the president may be sufficient justification for conservatives who accused the company of preventing conservative users and other pro-president political spectrums from showing their tweets.
Older Americans are classified as politically active on Twitter, where they (50 years and older) produce 29% of total tweets and 73% of political tweets. Those between the ages of 18 and 29 produced 20% of tweets, but only 4% of these tweets are political.
The Pew polled 2,247 American adults with Twitter accounts who were willing to allow researchers to track their activity on the site. The research used machine learning technology to categorize 1.1 million tweets throughout the year.