Most Of Twitter’s Paid Users Have Very Few Followers

Mashable reports:

Researcher Travis Brown, who has been tracking Twitter Blue subscriptions since January, recently revealed around half of all users subscribed to Twitter Blue have less than 1,000 followers. That’s approximately 220,132 paying subscribers.

Furthermore, 78,059 paying Twitter Blue subscribers have less than 100 users following their account. That’s 17.6 percent of all Twitter Blue subscribers. There are 2,270 paying Twitter Blue subscribers who have zero followers.

All told, this means that less than 0.2 percent of Twitter’s 254 million daily active users, a metric previously shared by Musk, are paying for Twitter Blue.

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Under the coming system, these relative nobodies with few or zero followers will be forced into your “For You” feed. It’s believed that very few “legacy” accounts will pay to keep their checkmarks.