Changes In Adult & Teen Social Networking vs Twitter Use, 2006-2012 [CHART]

Chart - Changes In Adult & Teen Social Networking vs Twitter Use

Fully 95% of those ages 12-17 use the internet. Eight in ten online teens use some kind of social media. Twitter is still not in the same league as Facebook, which attracts 77% of online teens. Still, 24% of online teens now use Twitter, a figure that is up from 16% in 2011 and 8% the first time we asked this question in late 2009. Teenagers’ use of Twitter now outpaces that of adults; just 16% of online adults are Twitter users, up slightly from the 12% who were using Twitter in 2011. Read the rest at Pew Internet and American Life.