Eight Percent of American Internet Users are on Twitter [Study]

Pew Research Center has released its first report that looks exclusively at Twitter today, and the results show some interesting demographic and usage patterns. Overall, eight percent of American adults who use the internet are Twitter users, with women, minorities, and people living in urban centers most likely to use Twitter.

Pew found that 10% of women online and only 7% of men have a Twitter account. Also, and perhaps unsurprisingly, young adults (between 18 and 29), are at least twice as likely to have a Twitter account than those in the age groups above them.