According to an online survey conducted in the United States in May 2021, 46 percent of posts on Twitter from frequent tweeters were retweets, and 30 percent were reply tweets. As for infrequent tweeters, over half of all posts were reply tweets, and 26 percent were retweets. For frequent and infrequent tweeters, original posts made up 19 and 18 percent of all posts on the social media platform, respectively.
Leading types of tweets posted by Twitter users in the United States as of May 2021, by tweet volume
According to the source: "Infrequent tweeters defined as those who have posted fewer than five tweets (of any type, including retweets) per month since they first opened their account. All other tweeters are names as frequent tweeters".
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