Update (16 April 2023)

[travisbrown]

Please note: The numbers here do not include all Twitter Blue subscribers. Twitter does not provide a way to list subscribers, and the methods used to compile this list do not find all accounts (in particular protected accounts, non-Anglophone accounts, and accounts with a small number of followers are less likely to appear here). The most recent internal leaks suggest that this list includes around 85-90% of all Twitter Blue subscribers.

The last update was delayed for a couple of days because I was traveling, so this update doesn't cover a full week. I did make some changes to the data collection system this week, with the goal of improving coverage for non-Anglophone accounts, which may account for part of the increase in subscription numbers (since some of these newly-identified subscribers may have been subscribed for more than a week, but are only being picked up by the system now, because of these improvements).

Update for the past week (minus a couple of days):

• 40,522 newly identified accounts with Twitter Blue verification
• 25,975 accounts lost Blue verification (either by unsubscription or Twitter action)
• 19,190 accounts returning (had been previously observed as subscribed, then weren't, and now are again)
• 368 Blue accounts suspended
• 508 Blue accounts self-deactivated

Net increase of 31,497 identified current Blue accounts for a total of 539,507. This puts my estimate for the total number of subscribers around 600-635k.

Some other information about current subscribers

Follower counts

Note that the Blue accounts that our methods miss will generally be newer and less prominent accounts, which means that these numbers are likely to be low—for example the number of Twitter Blue subscribers with fewer than 1,000 followers is probably much higher than 50%.

• Blue subscribers with 0 followers: 2,963
• Blue subscribers with fewer than 100 followers: 95,107 (17.6%)
• Blue subscribers with fewer than 1,000 followers: 262,069 (48.6%)

Other verification

• Blue subscribers with "Business" verification: 2,512 (9.6%)
• Blue subscribers with "Government" verification: 651 (8.5%)
• Blue subscribers with other legacy verification: 15,237 (3.8%)

Overall only about 4.5% of legacy verified accounts are currently signed up for Twitter Blue.

Locations

The top 50 values from the free-text location field (full list available here):

 126791 [none provided]
   7772 United States
   5417 Los Angeles, CA
   3157 London, England
   2981 المملكة العربية السعودية
   2869 New York, NY
   2685 USA
   2368 New York, USA
   2341 California, USA
   2323 San Francisco, CA
   2180 Florida, USA
   2174 United Kingdom
   2132 Chicago, IL
   2108 Miami, FL
   2067 Washington, DC
   2000 Atlanta, GA
   1857 Austin, TX
   1799 Texas, USA
   1779 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
   1766 İstanbul, Türkiye
   1685 Canada
   1662 India
   1641 Dallas, TX
   1596 Houston, TX
   1577 الرياض
   1551 London
   1542 Riyadh
   1434 日本
   1420 Las Vegas, NV
   1334 Metaverse
   1312 Toronto, Ontario
   1163 Earth
   1158 Boston, MA
   1130 Australia
   1115 New York
   1095 Seattle, WA
   1048 San Diego, CA
   1045 Vereinigte Staaten
    958 Los Angeles
    947 Nashville, TN
    925 England, United Kingdom
    921 New Jersey, USA
    910 Worldwide
    900 Texas
    900 Paris, France
    880 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    849 New Delhi, India
    845 Brooklyn, NY
    822 France
    810 日本 東京