The line graph compares the average number of times per week that people used Facebook and Twitter over a 5-year period (2012-2016).
Overall, it can be seen that the utilization of both applications was similiar at the beginning. Whereas Facebook usage gradually increased and Twitter decreased for some years and then increased rapidly and surpassed Facebook.
Facebook was used around 20 times per week in 2012. The number of times per week gradually increased untill 2016, which resulted in an increase of around 13 over a period of 5 years.The highest increase was around 5 times per week between 2013 and 2014.
Twitter fell from 23 times per week to 11 between 2012 and 2014, a decline of around 14 over a two-year period. However, in just one year between 2015 and 2016, the number of times per week of usage increased rapidly from 13 to 35, which also helped Twitter to surpass Facebook in 2016.
