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Name — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:02:05 -0000

"not desktop and mobile clients" -- something to think about people. Teens are glued to their cells and computers these days...

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tommy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:45:02 -0000

maybe theres nothing really interesting to tweet?

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Rooturaj Pattanaik — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:28:26 -0000

Well isn't the 16% a lot more in number than the 20% in green bar? Its the stupid facebook quizzes that is holding them back. (or so I feel)

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TeensAbout — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:26:10 -0000

Well, i know who's going to change that. It's call TeensAbout.com (http://www.TeensAbout.com) it's a twitter clone for teens with live image and text updates.

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guest34256 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:39:35 -0000

The reason why, from my understanding, is because we find twitter boring. we also think it's pretentious and self-centered to expect other people to be interested in what our daily schedule looks like. Also, facebook is the big thing for young people right now, and we can update our status on there - so why would we go and use yet another website for the same purpose?

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guest34256 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:39:24 -0000

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Bookie — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:37:12 -0000

It's not wrong, it's true, and this did not surprise me or irk me at all - I accepted it, because I already knew it. None of my friends use Twitter, they treat it like a joke.

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Bookie — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:35:17 -0000

Twitter isn't "cool" with the teens at the moment - almost every teen uses Facebook, and they're happy with it. Twitter doesn't offer an easy to way to upload photos, participate in little "what character are you?" quizes, reply to stats and have threaded conversation, chat in real time...

Meanwhile, people who do see the real beauty and simplicity of Twitter are those that run a website, forum, blog, or otherwise have some sort of community or fandom surrounding them. Teens have already built a network - but on Facebook/MySpace, not Twitter. Teens consider Twitter a bit of a joke, such as "who has the most followers", not who has the most interesting tweets.

And yes, I'm a teen. I tried to get my friends to join it, but it didn't work. I don't use Twitter for personal use, it's more of a way to connect to people online who I *don't* know, who offer interesting quotes and tidbits of trivia that my friends would find boring. Twitter is for making friends, not importing them from Facebook.

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Stephen — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:04:33 -0000

The graph is poorly titled; however, if you look at the axes, it is showing "snapshots" of the twitter population at one-month time intervals. In June 2009, indeed only 16% of the user base was aged 2 - 24 years of age. The graph is showing the "growth" of the twitter user base in that it also shows the trend of an increasing number users over the six-month period; however, that is not the aspect of this graph that is being focused on in the article.

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Michael Golrick — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:45:55 -0000

This is clearly wrong, and is based on the flawed method which you even cite here: "Nielsen is only measuring people who visit Twitter.com (not desktop and mobile clients)".

This headline reflects the same kinds of assumptions that resulted in the "Dewey Wins" for the 1948 Presidential election.

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Toni — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:42:17 -0000

I think the rate of growth has happened for both the older and teen category, and will continue to grow as you can see in the trend already. Many didn't really understand or see the relevance of twitter, until they begin to use it. I was a little skeptic and awkward using it at first...now I love it!
Also, twitter is great for people you don’t know, unlike FaceBook, which is more for people you know. They both have a significant place in the internet world, and I think Twitter will only continue gaining prominence with all ages.
Capo 4!!!!

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Salman — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:43:03 -0000

I guess the more valid question is not why are teen users twitter shy - but where teen users spend most of their online time? i.e. what is their social media twitter-esque substitute? Facebook? MySpace? SMS?

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Esther — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:21:25 -0000

my teen would rather aim -

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ddefillo — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:06:51 -0000

LOL! Curiously Facebook bought Friendfeed and is beta testing (invite only) Facebook Lite!

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RAM-fish — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:42:03 -0000

I'm 15 years old and the only reason I got a Twitter account was because people couldn't understand why I didn't want one. It's just easier to say, "Yes, I have Twitter" rather than "No, I don't" because apparently, the latter option requires a rather long explanation. I don't tweet because if what I want to say can be said in under 140 characters, then it's probably not really worth mentioning. I'd much prefer to use other popular sites that allow me to say however much I want to.

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Your Name* — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:32:22 -0000

Give it some time....they'll (teens) will come around.

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obilon — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:12:32 -0000

I wrote about his on my blog in a post, "Twitter? As If!" Sorry Twitter. Teens just aren’t that into you. And Facebook – you’re next. http://lonscohen.com/blog/2...

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LaraRibas — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:29:58 -0000

24 here and love twitter. Use it on a daily basis for professional and personal purposes. :)

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kluxas — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:27:50 -0000

even toddlers can learn new tricks

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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:12:18 -0000

what the fuck do teenagers know anyway

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mirweis — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:34:13 -0000

sorry for the double posting (mashable commenting system is kind of misleading ;-) )

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mirweis — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:33:45 -0000

I agree with some of the comments down there pointing out the socializing and privacy aspects. Twitter simply does not offer interesting conversational patterns for teenagers to cope with their socializing needs. Twitter is more about a monologue of pushed information (one to many) than creating dialogue (one to one) opportunities.

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Roc — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:30:46 -0000

28, i want to die

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Chris — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:27:56 -0000

At least 85% my school is on twitter =/ ... Though if third party apps weren't measured the stats might be right ... (I tweets from DestroyTwitter, TinyTwitter, twyt and Flock after going through fair few different apps including twhirl and the actual twitter interface.)

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Batman — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:23:45 -0000

Well, my daughter is either too busy texting her friends with her phone, or chatting on Facebook to tweet I would imagine, and my son is too busy watching the latest Pokemon YouTube videos....