Twitter: The Greying of Social Networking

Is it our fading attention spans, incurable despite massive doses of ginko biloba and fish oil ? Or growing up in NYC with 1010 WINS newsbites, 45 rpm singles, and NY1 minutes..

Anyway, at the risk of alienating today's tech-immersed jugen, check this out: Yesterday's Times of London online notes that "midlife chatterers show they prefer to keep it short and tweet. Twitter appears to be the embodiment of youth culture with tech-savvy and fast-thumbed teens firing off short updates filled with abbreviations about their lives. But it turns out that the keenest users are the greying brigades of the middle-aged.

More mature users, led by famous tweeters such as Stephen Fry, Jonathan Ross and Sarah Brown, are the driving force behind the popularity of the site. New research shows that 45 54-year-olds are 36 per cent more likely than the average to visit the site, with figures from comScore, the internet market researchers, showing that the majority of the 10 million Twitter users worldwide are aged 35 or older.

Twitter is a social networking and “microblogging” site, where users post short updates — “tweets” — of up to 140 characters via the website or a mobile phone. More than 3.5 million people signed up in the first two months of this year.

Full news item here:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6083154.ece