A quarter of US adults on Twitter account for 97% of the tweets

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This is how the 1% rule works [0]. More generally, it's an application of the 80/20 or Pareto principle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)#:....

Title is definitely malformed on this one, a quarter of US adults have a Twitter account of which the top 25% most active US adults produce 97% of the tweets.

I think it's intended to read:

A quarter of (US adults on Twitter) account for 97% of tweets

That seems to be based on this result from the article:

An analysis of tweets by this representative sample of U.S. adult Twitter users from June 12 to Sept. 12, 2021, finds that the most active 25% of U.S. adults on Twitter by tweet volume produced 97% of all tweets from these users.

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