jackwilson (True Core Lover): Social networking researcher Danah Boyd responded to the Pear Analytics survey by arguing that what the Pear researchers labelled "pointless babble" is better characterized as "peripheral awareness" 0r "social grooming".[ *
06-03-10 - 00:58:14

jackwilson (True Core Lover): Rankings : Twitter is ranked as one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide by Alexa's web traffic analysis.[40] Although estimates of the number of daily users vary because the company does not release the number of active accounts, a February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranked Twitter as the third most used social network[41] based on their count of 6 million unique monthly visitors *
06-03-10 - 01:04:42

jackwilson (True Core Lover): and 55 million monthly visits.[41] In March 2009, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest-growing site in the Member Communities category for February 2009. Twitter had a monthly growth of 1,382 percent, Zimbio of 240 percent, followed by Facebook with an increase of 228 percent.[42] However, only 40 percent of Twitter's users are retained.[43] *
06-03-10 - 01:04:55

jackwilson (True Core Lover): Demographics : Most of Twitter's usage share comes from older adults who might not have used other social sites before Twitter, said Jeremiah Owyang, an industry analyst studying social media. "Adults are just catching up to what teens have been doing for years," he said.[44] *
06-03-10 - 01:05:16

jackwilson (True Core Lover): Just 11 percent of Twitter's users are aged 12 to 17, according to comScore *
06-03-10 - 01:05:34