Muslims, Atheists tweet more than other religious counterparts: Study

A new study titled U.S. Religious Landscape on Twitter revealed that Muslims and Atheists are more active on Twitter than Christian and Jewish counterparts.

The study was conducted on 250,000 U.S. users, who self-reported their religion as atheism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam or Judaism, in their user profiles, and consisted of more than 96 million tweets, The Washington Times reported.

The study showed that Muslim users average 4.2 tweets per day, while atheists average 3.3 tweets a day, compared to the 1.8 tweets from their Christian and Jewish counterparts with the lowest user rates, report said

According to the study, atheists had the highest mean number of tweets per user at 3,976.8 compared to Muslims at 3,826.5.

Jewish users, Hindus and Buddhists had between 2,095.7 and 2,595.7 tweets, while Christian users only had 1,981 mean tweets per user, the report added.