Reality Check: Teens Still Don't Tweet
The way it’s overtaken the TV newsrooms and celebrity gossip pages, you’d think that Twitter was the be-all-and-end-all of social media. But a new report from the Pew Research Center cited in this Washington Post article says otherwise: teens are pretty ambivalent about using Twitter, with only 8 percent of those online reporting regular use of the social networking tool.
This confirms anecdotal findings of teens and young adults who create a Twitter account to see what it’s all about, only to lose interest after a short burst of Tweets.
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