On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Melissa P <[email protected]>wrote:

> Look what Pew sent me today.  Updated data!
>   (SNIP) African-American and Latino internet users continue
> to be significantly more likely than whites to be Twitter users.
>
> Read the full article at
> http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2007/twitter-users-cell-phone-2011-demographics
>

I find this particularly interesting. And from what can be gathered from the
data provided, this is a true ethnic difference - not explained by SES,
education or even geography (that is a little stronger statement than
justified by the data, but Twitter is not used more by lower SES or
educational level or urban dwellers. I don't know enough about twitter
culture to form any hypotheses for this - though I do note that in the
coverage of his retirement yesterday there were several references to one of
the creators (or owners?) of twitter crediting Shaquille Oneal with  having
a huge impact on the growth of twitter, as he was one of the early celebrity
adopters.

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