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America loves Twitter. For those unfamiliar with Twitter, it is a microblogging platform that allows user to post status updates of upto 140 characters. According to a report out last week from Pew, 11 percent of Americans “use Twitter or update their status online,” which is honestly greater than I expected. However, Twitter has been growing exponentially over the past few month (Google Trends: Twitter). Here are the main takeaways from the Pew report:
- Eleven percent of online American has used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.
- The use of Twitter is highly intertwined with the use of other social media; both blogging and social network use increase the likelihood than an individual also uses Twitter.
- As a group, Twitter users are much more likely to be using wireless technologies — laptops, handhelds and cell phones — for internet access, or cell phones for text messaging.
- Twitter users engage with news and own technology at the same rates as other internet users, but the ways in which they use the technology — to communicate, gather and share information — reveals their affinity for mobile, untethered and social opportunities for interaction.
Download the full report here.
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