I've been looking for Twitter demographic profiles and just discovered this post from Compete analyzing some recent Twitter data. Here's another survey of how people are using Twitter.
http://www.toprankblog.com/2008/03/reader-poll-how-do-you-use-twitter/
Woo hoo! My demographic likes Twitter least!
Posted by: Stephen Downes | May 21, 2008 at 01:37 PM
Hi Beth,
Thanks for posting these Twitter statistics. I am not surprised by the younger generations having a higher usage of Twitter. I was surprised by two things: 1) Regardless of the age group there appears to be an even spread regarding the level of Twitter usage, and 2) the age group 55-64 have a higher usage than the age groups before and after it.
Posted by: Roger Carr | May 25, 2008 at 04:37 AM
Very interesting. I'd remind Roger Carr that that 55-64 posse is full of front-end baby boomers who are getting more time to fool around on the web and are community-seeking anyway. Makes sense, no?
Posted by: Cynthia Samuels | May 27, 2008 at 05:09 PM
Thanks for sharing this data - it is very interesting! I was surprised by the gender breakdown. I didn't realize that male usage was so much greater than female.
Posted by: Neha | May 30, 2008 at 12:07 PM
@neha I was going to make an observation about that - what does that say?
Posted by: Beth Kanter | May 30, 2008 at 02:17 PM
Beth - I'm unsure, however the recent study conducted by BlogHer clearly shows how important blogging is to women - perhaps women prefer this as a more in depth communication of an idea and micro-blogging is slower to pick up? What were your ideas?
Posted by: Neha | May 31, 2008 at 04:42 PM