{"id":367666,"date":"2021-11-16T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/most-twitter-users-are-just-there-to-watch-new-research-finds\/"},"modified":"2021-11-16T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:03:00","slug":"most-twitter-users-are-just-there-to-watch-new-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/most-twitter-users-are-just-there-to-watch-new-research-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"#: Most Twitter users are just there to watch, new research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b7285666f9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/most-twitter-users-are-just-there-to-watch-new-research-finds\/#Surveys_by_the_Pew_Research_Center_found_a_partisan_split_on_whether_Twitter_is_good_for_democracy\" >Surveys by the Pew Research Center found a partisan split on whether Twitter is good for democracy.<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/most-twitter-users-are-just-there-to-watch-new-research-finds\/#Katherine_Wiles\" >Katherine Wiles<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#: Most <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> users are just there to watch, new research finds<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Surveys_by_the_Pew_Research_Center_found_a_partisan_split_on_whether_Twitter_is_good_for_democracy\"><\/span>\n  Surveys by the Pew Research Center found a partisan split on whether Twitter is good for democracy.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"article body\">\n<div class=\"article__side\">\n<div class=\"container--sticky not-active\">\n<div id=\"cx-next\" data-nosnippet>\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0000487205\" role=\"document\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div data-track=\"barrons-article-ad-wrap\" class=\"barrons-article-ad sticky_item\">\n<div class=\"barrons-main-article-ad-target sticky_target body_ad\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-layout=\"\n                inline\" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetArticleReader\n              \n              inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetArticleReader\n              article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-object-article-reader\">\n<div class=\"audioplayer\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0000487205\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Listen to Article\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"articlereader\" data-show-title=\"false\" data-theme=\"wsj-article-reader\" data-show-header=\"false\" data-show-subscribe=\"false\" data-ads-enabled=\"true\" data-save-publication=\"false\">\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       Nearly a quarter of U.S. adults say they log on to Twitter<br \/>\n        TWTR,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/203180645\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+1.34%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       for everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> to sports to politics. But very few of those users are there to tweet.<\/p>\n<p> Most of the tweets on the social-media platform come from a minority of users, a new pair of reports from Pew Research Center shows. One of the reports,<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2021\/11\/15\/the-behaviors-and-attitudes-of-u-s-adults-on-twitter\/\" class=\"icon none\"> focused on the behaviors and attitudes of U.S. adults on Twitter<\/a>, found that the most active 25% of adult users accounted for 97% of all tweets produced.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       That lines up with trends seen in previous research by Pew, Aaron Smith, director of the Center\u2019s Data Labs research team and one of the report\u2019s lead authors, told MarketWatch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy team has looked at everything from popular YouTube<br \/>\n        GOOGL,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/202490156\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-0.15%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       channels to social media posts from members of Congress. And in almost every one of those studies, we see a pretty similar relationship to this where a minority of people or groups produce the majority of stuff,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Pew wanted to go further in its research on this group of active Twitter users, Smith said, to see how they differ from those that might just be lurking on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>In a lot of ways, the active users behave exactly how you\u2019d expect them to, Smith said. They have more followers, and follow more people. They spend a lot of time on the site, with 58% saying they visit it daily and more than 1 in 5 saying they visit it too many times to count each day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you ask them questions about their behaviors on the site, they\u2019ll tell you that they\u2019re mostly there to speak their own opinions. All that kind of lines up with what you\u2019d expect,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>What researchers found surprising, he said, is this group\u2019s political behaviors and how these users interpret potentially negative activities on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Active users are more likely to say their use of Twitter has made them feel more politically engaged in the last year, the study found. So <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly, they\u2019re a more politically active group, Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Pew found a partisan divide on opinions about Twitter\u2019s impact on democracy. Republicans and Republican-leaning independents were nearly twice as likely as Democrats and people who lean Democrat \u201cto say the site is bad for American democracy (60% vs. 28%),\u201d Pew researchers wrote. \u201cConversely, roughly half of Democrats who use the site say it is good for American democracy \u2014 just 17% of Republican users say the same,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<p>Regardless of political affiliation, high-volume tweeters are about twice as likely to experience harassment or abusive behavior on the site. But the group is less likely to say that the tone or civility of conversations on Twitter is a major problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey brush off some behaviors that other users might might find more problematic and are willing to put up with some things that we might find troublesome in other contexts,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>While similar shares of Republican and Democratic users are likely to say issues such as civility and misinformation are important, Republican tweeters are far more likely than Democratic ones to say that limiting the reach or visibility of certain posts or banning users outright is a major problem.<\/p>\n<p>Only 6% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning users see Twitter banning users as a major problem, while 61% of Republican and Republican-leaning users see it as a major problem.<\/p>\n<p>Republican tweeters, including independents who lean Republican, are nearly twice as likely to say the platform is bad for American democracy than their Democratic counterparts. That also falls in line with trends seen in other research, Smith said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong>Twitter algorithm amplifies right-leaning politics more than left, internal study finds<\/p>\n<p>Another significant finding was that despite active users sending an average of 65 tweets per month, users in the top 25% of producers receive little engagement, with an average of 37 likes and only one retweet a month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a lot of ways, you know, these are folks that are kind of talking to themselves a little bit,\u201d Smith said, and they tend to not have much \u201cpositive reinforcement or interaction with the broader Twitter universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter did not respond immediately to a request for comment. The company said on its third quarter earnings call that average \u201cmonetizable daily active users\u201d increased 13% year over year to 211 million, up 5 million from the previous quarter.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>    <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author mobile-scrim hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Katherine Wiles\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"bio\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/author\/katherine-wiles\",\"text\":\"Biography\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"twitter\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katecwiles\",\"text\":\"@katecwiles\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"email\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/mailto:katherine.wiles@marketwatch.com\",\"text\":\"katherine.wiles@marketwatch.com\"}]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Katherine_Wiles\"><\/span>Katherine Wiles<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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