Monday, November 9, 2009

Twitter gets younger, Facebook gets older

by Ally Moehring - Integrated PR Strategist
According to the latest Pew Internet & American Life research results, contrary to recent reports Twitter is quickly being adopted by a younger demographic with the average age of Twitter users at 31, compared to Facebook’s average user age of 33, up from 26. The average age of a MySpace user is 26 and LinkedIn, 39.

A shift was bound to happen at some point this year with both Facebook and Twitter expanding its user base rapidly, but Facebook from being a college-specific social networking site to something that parents and grandparents use to stay connected and Twitter from a microblogging service that was initially adopted by an older 30-something demographic, but trending to grow a younger demographic base.

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