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. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
