Twitter does not need Donald Trump to keep growing. The company said today that it ended 2020 with 192 million daily users, and the figure continues to grow in January – the month when Trump was banned from the platform. Twitter did not offer any specific daily usage figures for January, but he said the daily growth of users was “above the historical average of the past four years.”
The details were given in Twitter’s Q4 2020 revenue release, which covers October to the end of December 2020. This means that the announcement will not normally affect information from January, but Twitter said it provided the details “given the unusual circumstances this quarter.” It is not clear how much Trump’s presence has strengthened the use of Twitter over the years. not, but the expectation was that the President of the United States as a regular user would likely benefit from Twitter.
Although the Trump ban may not have had an immediate impact, Twitter warns that its growth will slow. The company says that the figures for 2021 after ‘our tremendous growth in 2020 will look a little worse. For the first three months of 2021, Twitter expects daily users to grow by 20 percent year-on-year, compared to 24 percent by 2020. Twitter expects growth in the ‘low double digits’ for the rest of the year, while the second quarter is the lowest. point. According to Twitter, the slowdown is due to a significant surge in the pandemic last year.