http://www.twitterrati.com/2009/06/01/is-twitter-for-old-fogies/ The World of Twitter and Microblogging Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:12:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.twitterrati.com/2009/06/01/is-twitter-for-old-fogies/comment-page-1/#comment-3827 Bill Vannerson Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:07:42 +0000 http://www.twitterrati.com/?p=929#comment-3827 So when the youngin's grow up and enter the business world what will they do? They'll have to trade in texting and SMS for some other communication platform as the contacts they need to communicate with are mot going to use text messaging. E-mail is a given defacto standard right now, but twitter (or whatever it is to become) is likely to gain wider acceptance as they enter the workforce as it more closeley resembles texting. It would be interesting to see different age breakdown for this study; say 18-22 and 23-26. The first group would be college student age and the second newly entered to the job market, That might be more telling. So when the youngin's grow up and enter the business world what will they do? They'll have to trade in texting and SMS for some other communication platform as the contacts they need to communicate with are mot going to use text messaging. E-mail is a given defacto standard right now, but twitter (or whatever it is to become) is likely to gain wider acceptance as they enter the workforce as it more closeley resembles texting. It would be interesting to see different age breakdown for this study; say 18-22 and 23-26. The first group would be college student age and the second newly entered to the job market, That might be more telling.

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