Where are all the kids on Twitter?

by Chris Abraham on 01/06/2009 · 1 comment

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Cem Sertoglu read through my rant about why Twitter hype is not Second Life hype and asked me this question, “@chris – thanks for the comment here. very insightful. how about the issue with kids not using twitter?” I responded in a comment (and here):

Well, “kids” don’t blog either.  Kids won’t blog until they feel empowered enough to start creating on their own accord or until they find it useful — hell, “kids” might never ever take to Twitter, except that they will want to engage with TMZ Staffers on Twitter (@harveylevintmz @daxholt @ninaparkertmz @lmharris70 @carolynafenton @frankvelardo) because there will be loads of kids who will get on board to be able to stalk their favorite celebs and stars.

But who knows.

Rockers and fans are still on MySpace and the “kids” have yet to bail on Facebook (yet) so we’ll see what happens.

It is very odd to see how the median age for blogging and twittering is much older than you would think: “the median age of a Twitter user is 31. In comparison, the median age of a MySpace user is 27, Facebook user is 26 and LinkedIn user is 40.7,” according to Pew.

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1 Travis Cunningham 16/06/2009 at 20:05

I use Twitter and I’m 15 :p @travisc94

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