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Twitter use grows by tweets and bounds
Etan Horowitz, The Orlando Sentinel
Issue date: 2/18/09 Section: News
The Twitter community is growing.
A Pew Internet & American Life Project survey released last week shows that about 11 percent of online adults have used Twitter or a similar "micro-blogging" service, which allow users to post quick, brief messages to each other via a computer or mobile phone.
In May, only 6 percent said they were using Twitter and in November, that number jumped to 9 percent.
As you might expect, young adults are the largest percentage of Twitter users. The median age of a Twitter user is 31.
Here's the breakdown by age group:
_ 19 percent of online adults ages 18 to 24
_ 20 percent of 25 to 34
_ 10 percent of 35 to 44
_ 5 percent of 45 to 54
_ 4 percent of 55 to 64
_ 2 percent of 65 and older
The numbers show that Twitter, while growing, has yet to enter the mainstream.
By comparison, a Pew study released in January found that 35 percent of online adults have a profile on a social networking site such as Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn.
(c) 2009, The Orlando Sentinel. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
A Pew Internet & American Life Project survey released last week shows that about 11 percent of online adults have used Twitter or a similar "micro-blogging" service, which allow users to post quick, brief messages to each other via a computer or mobile phone.
In May, only 6 percent said they were using Twitter and in November, that number jumped to 9 percent.
As you might expect, young adults are the largest percentage of Twitter users. The median age of a Twitter user is 31.
Here's the breakdown by age group:
_ 19 percent of online adults ages 18 to 24
_ 20 percent of 25 to 34
_ 10 percent of 35 to 44
_ 5 percent of 45 to 54
_ 4 percent of 55 to 64
_ 2 percent of 65 and older
The numbers show that Twitter, while growing, has yet to enter the mainstream.
By comparison, a Pew study released in January found that 35 percent of online adults have a profile on a social networking site such as Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn.
(c) 2009, The Orlando Sentinel. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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