In the first quarter of 2020, the majority of respondents in the United Kingdom (UK) reported using Twitter several times a day, at 43 percent. A share of 15 percent of the respondents stated that they used Twitter a few times a week.
Leading accounts on Twitter
As of November 2020, BBC Breaking News was the most popular Twitter account based in the United Kingdom, in terms of the number of followers. Other than the BBC news account, the rest of the top five Twitter accounts included three members of the boyband One Direction: Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, along with the Twitter account of One Direction itself.
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Distribution of Twitter users in the United Kingdom (UK) in the 1st quarter of 2020, by frequency of use
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Ipsos MORI. (April 8, 2020). Distribution of Twitter users in the United Kingdom (UK) in the 1st quarter of 2020, by frequency of use [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved February 23, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/611306/frequency-of-twitter-use-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/
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