WHO'S DRIVING TWITTER'S POPULARITY? NOT TEENS


	WHO'S DRIVING TWITTER'S POPULARITY? NOT TEENS

ellington

8-31-2009 11:22 PM

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WHY ADULTS HAVE FUELED TWITTER'S GROWTH

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d2a47121-ed6c-49c8-9eb1-ea5fdb4093e1/DACEDA3D-330C-46B9-9833-29E74AEA7371/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html?_r=1&nl=technology&emc=techupdateema1#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html?_r=1&nl=technology&emc=techupdateema1#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html?_r=1&nl=technology&emc=techupdateema1#"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0">
Who’s Driving Twitter’s Popularity? Not Teens
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Kristen Nagy, 18, sends many text messages, but never on Twitter. 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html?_r=1&nl=technology&emc=techupdateema1#"><P>Kristen Nagy, an 18-year-old from Sparta, N.J., sends and receives 500 <A title="More articles about text messaging." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/t/text_messaging/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">text messages</A> a day. But she never uses <A title="More articles about Twitter." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/twitter/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Twitter</A>, even though it publishes similar snippets of conversations and observations. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html?_r=1&nl=technology&emc=techupdateema1#"><P>“I just think it’s weird and I don’t feel like everyone needs to know what I’m doing every second of my life,” she said. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html?_r=1&nl=technology&emc=techupdateema1#"><P>Her reluctance to use Twitter, a feeling shared by others in her age group, has not doomed the microblogging service. Just 11 percent of its users are aged 12 to 17,  according to <A title="More information about comScore, Inc" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/comscore-inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org">comScore</A>. Instead, Twitter’s unparalleled explosion in popularity has been driven by a decidedly older group. That success has shattered a widely held belief that young people lead the way to popularizing innovations. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html?_r=1&nl=technology&emc=techupdateema1#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/6EAA07E4-2E1A-4D8F-B1BF-68600A4256BC" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html?_r=1&nl=technology&emc=techupdateema1#"><P class="caption">
Teenagers, it seems, would rather chat with close friends than tweet to the masses. 
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