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Who’s Driving Twitter’s Popularity? Not Teens The NY Times Reports
Posted by Jules Walters at 10:31 am Marketing
Aug 272009
Still unsure about using Twitter for your business? Still think it’s simply a tool for teens to detail their every move? New research shows the opposite.
“Almost everyone under 35 uses social networks, but the growth of these networks over the last year has come from older adults, according to a report from Forrester Research issued Tuesday. Use of social networking by people aged 35 to 54 grew 60 percent in the last year.”
“Many people use it for professional purposes — keeping connected with industry contacts and following news,” said Evan Williams, Twitter’s co-founder and chief executive. “Because it’s a one-to-many network and most of the content is public, it works for this better than a social network that’s optimized for friend communication.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html