As COVID-19 began sweeping across the world last spring, Twitter experienced phenomenal growth with much of the planet’s population confined to their homes, helping the platform recover from a seven-year slump in daily tweet volume. As the pandemic has worn on, has Twitter continued to grow? How did the changes the platform made around the 2020 presidential election affect its growth and has its banning of Donald Trump caused it to lose users?
The timeline below shows the total number of daily tweets from 2012-2021 (gaps are missing data), estimated from the Twitter 1% stream, showing its enormous growth at the start of the pandemic as the world was locked down, and the sharp decrease from October 20 through December 16, 2020 when Twitter added "friction" to retweeting to combat misinformation.
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