Barely 8% Americans use Twitter--study

As per the latest Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project survey report released Thursday, out of 74 percent of Americans adults who uses internet, only 8 percent visit or use Twitter daily.

Pew survey report also noted that people aged between 18 to 29 years are Twitter’s primary users, who frequently uses the micro-blogging site to share updates about their interests, personal life or daily activities etc.

Despite having more than 175 million users worldwide, barely 6 percent of adult population in the United States use Twitter, indicating that the micro-blogging site is not as popular as its rival site Facebook.

Just recently, company revealed via an official statement that over 100 million people have joined Twitter this year alone, however, majority of users hardly ever read/reply to others’ tweets.

Interestingly, there are also some, who do not even bother to visit the site ever again after registering themselves on it.

Survey findings
To come to this conclusion, Pew conducted a survey in November, in which it interviewed over 2250 internet users.

The researchers asked questions such as whether they use Twitter or some other social media to share/see updates, and how frequently they use Twitter in a day.

Among those who post updates, researchers noted that 72 percent of Twitter users update about their interests or personal life and 62 percent like to post updates related to their work.

Despite having more than 175 million users worldwide, barely 6 percent of adult population in the United States use Twitter, indicating that the micro-blogging site is not as popular as its rival site Facebook.

Twitter users hardly ever bother to re-tweet other people’s tweets, but 53 percent users like to retweet about material like news stories.

Also, 52 percent internet users revealed that they send direct messages via their account to others, 40 percent use Twitter to share photos, and 28 to share videos.

Pew surveyors concluded in their report that despite all this activity on Twitter, it seems like not many are interested in knowing what others are posting.

Twitter popular among young adults
Pew researchers also found that young Latino and Afro-American adults are twice as likely as whites to use the micro-blogging site.

The reason for this change is that they are younger, more tech-savvy and want to stay connected unlike older adults.

A senior research specialist at Pew, Aaron Smith, commented, “Both of those groups, African-American and Latino adult Internet users in the US, tend to be younger than white Internet users, which helps to lead to their adoption of Twitter.”