So, How Many People are Actually on Twitter?

Twitter has been nototiously tight-lipped about exactly how many of its 100s of millions of accounts are active. They, understandably, don’t want it to get out that only a small percent of Twitter accounts are actually being used by real people. New data from eMarketer sheds some insight on the true number of active Twitter users – and it’s probably smaller than you think.

Earlier last year, Pew Internet and American Life Project released some demographic information about Twitter users, and found that about 8%