As Elon Musk rebrands Twitter to "X," here are eight facts about Americans' use of the social media platform.

About six-in-ten Americans (59%) see TikTok as a major or minor threat to national security in the United States.

More than 44 million #BlackLivesMatter tweets from nearly 10 million distinct users currently exist on Twitter today. Over half of all existing tweets that include the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag were posted from May to September 2020.

17% of U.S. adults have unfollowed, unfriended, blocked or changed their settings to see less of someone on social media because of religious content the person posted or shared.

Today, 51% of U.S. adults say they support the Black Lives Matter movement – down from 67% in June 2020. A majority of Americans say the increased focus on race and racial inequality in the past three years hasn't led to improvement for Black Americans.

23% of the prominent accounts on the seven alternative social media sites studied sought financial support from their audiences in June 2022.

With Musk at the helm, here are four facts about how adult Twitter users in the United States are using the site.

A quarter of Americans who have used Twitter in the past year say they are not likely to use it a year from now.

Since Elon Musk's take over of Twitter, Republican users have more positive views of the site, while those of Democratic users are more negative.

More than half of U.S. teens say it would be difficult for them to give up social media. 36% say they spend too much time on social media.