Pew Survey Finds Nearly 20 Percent of Online Americans Tweet by Tony Bradley, PCWorld (Oct 21)
That high!
"A new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project claims that 19 percent, or nearly 1 in 5, Americans who use the Internet also use Twitter or some other social networking status update service to keep in touch and share information about themselves with others. The bigger news is that this figure is almost double what it was in a previous survey in December of 2008."
"Twitter or some other social networkng status update service" means Facebook. There is a key difference between the two.
"One thing that sets Twitter apart from Facebook though is the ability to send and receive status updates via SMS text messaging. Web-enabled mobile phones can access Facebook, Twitter, or other status update services. These services also provide apps for devices like the iPhone and Windows Mobile phones. But, Twitter stands alone in that tweets can be sent via text messaging, and users can designate specific users to have the tweets sent to their mobile phone via text messaging. The 140-character limitation of Twitter tweets lends itself well to text messaging."
See PEW report - Twitter and Status Updating, Fall 2009
Posted by Gwen at October 22, 2009 01:03 PM