How many posts are published on X (formerly Twitter) each day?
Internet medium Data from 2023
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The answer
500,000,000 posts
Roughly 500M.
Around 500 million posts a day are published on X — roughly 5,800 every second. The platform has never been the largest social network by users, but it has an outsized effect on news because journalists and politicians live on it.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Platform disclosures reported in the trade press |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2023 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | posts |
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