Despite the excitement about Twitter, the reality is Twitter and microblogging are far from being mainstream services.
But according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 11% of online U.S. adults said they “used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others”.
The demographic break-out shows that Twitter – and other services – are most popular with people in the 18-to-24-year-old bracket where usage is 19% and the 25-to-34-year-old graphic where usage is 20%. Usage drops to 10% among 35-to-44-year-olds and 5% among 45-to-54-year-olds.
Pew suggests that people are more likely to use Twitter if they’ve already used a social network. It found that 23% of social network users have used Twitter, while only 4% of Twitter users have not used social networks.
These are definitely interested numbers but I wonder what usage is among people involved in the high-tech and media sectors where I would think usage is significantly higher than average.
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I agreed with you, Twitter is still not yet mainstream as compared to the user of some other services. Twitter has a long way to go.
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