The Scrape of the Sabine Women and other Twitterfun

Following on from the last post on Twitter social graphing....Pew Research put out a report last week on behaviours on the Social Network du Jour:

In the past three years, developments in social networking and internet applications have begun providing internet users with more opportunities for sharing short updates about themselves, their lives, and their whereabouts online. Users may post messages about their status, their moods, their location and other tidbits on social networks and blogging sites, or on applications for sending out short messages to networks of friends like Twitter, Yammer and others.

As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.

Twitter and similar services have been most avidly embraced by young adults. Nearly one in five (19%) online adults ages 18 and 24 have ever used Twitter and its ilk, as have 20% of online adults 25 to 34. Use of these services drops off steadily after age 35 with 10% of 35 to 44 year olds and 5% of 45 to 54 year olds using Twitter. The decline is even more stark among older internet users; 4% of 55-64 year olds and 2% of those 65 and older use Twitter.

And as we noted in the last post, there is always someone watching them. Or at least there will be, looking at the antics of Facebook recently its clear that digital surveillance-to-sell will be a big part of the 2009 SocNet bizmodel, given that Adspend is falling off.....