How much data does X / Twitter use?
About 100MB an hour at feed.
Text-heavy feeds are cheap. Video-heavy ones behave like Instagram.
Put that on a real trip: 60 minutes a day for 10 days at feed works out at about 1.0GB , before anything else on your phone, and before the 120MB a day that background sync quietly takes.
X / Twitter data usage by quality
| Quality | Data | 1GB lasts | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feed | 100MB/hr | 10 hours | measured |
Published means the service states the figure itself. Bitrate means it's arithmetic from a documented stream rate. Measured means it's corroborated across independent tests. Real usage moves with signal strength and how aggressively the app pre-buffers.
How that compares
Lighter than X / Twitter
- Web browsing70MB/hr
- Podcasts60MB/hr
- Spotify43MB/hr
Heavier than X / Twitter
- Apple Music115MB/hr
- Facebook120MB/hr
- WhatsApp video calls270MB/hr