Date uploaded: 2022-11-04 15:05:37

After buying Twitter for $44 billion, owner Elon Musk is reshaping the social media platform, including disbanding its board of directors, bringing in coding engineers from his other companies and planning a monthly fee for revamped Twitter Blue subscriptions that will replace the existing verification process. The changes, actual and pending, would affect Twitter customers in the U.S. and across the globe. Though Twitter is not the world’s largest platform, it has hundreds of millions of users and presents a significant amount of commentary on American politics. As the service unveils more operational changes, USA TODAY takes a moment to look at Twitter’s reach to calculate who will be affected. Visit the link in bio for more. Correction: A previous version of these graphics misrepresented the scope of the data.