The Median Twitter User Has 1 Follower [STATS]

Research from Jon Bruner, a data journalist at O’Reilly Radar, recently found that the median Twitter account has only one follower, reports The Atlantic.

The catch is that a massive number of Twitter accounts have been created and left unused – so when you only include accounts that have tweeted in the past 30 days, the median user has 61 followers.

In contrast to what much Twitter research and coverage focuses on – Katy Perry’s 48 million followers! 1.2