Comments on: Teens WILL Tweet: Give Them a Minute http://siliconangle.com/blog/2009/08/05/teens-will-tweet-give-them-a-minute/ Computer Science meets Social Science Thu, 24 May 2012 21:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ethan Bauley http://siliconangle.com/blog/2009/08/05/teens-will-tweet-give-them-a-minute/comment-page-1/#comment-658 Ethan Bauley Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:08:10 +0000 http://siliconangle.com/ver2/2009/08/05/teens-will-tweet-give-them-a-minute/#comment-658 I am loving these posts you're writing<br><br>Thanks god someone is doing a decent analysis of these self-promotional "studies"<br><br>The coverage around that last Twitter "study" from Harvard was garbage, too, Alan Patrick nailed it tho I am loving these posts you're writing

Thanks god someone is doing a decent analysis of these self-promotional “studies”

The coverage around that last Twitter “study” from Harvard was garbage, too, Alan Patrick nailed it tho

]]> By: Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins http://siliconangle.com/blog/2009/08/05/teens-will-tweet-give-them-a-minute/comment-page-1/#comment-653 Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:09:26 +0000 http://siliconangle.com/ver2/2009/08/05/teens-will-tweet-give-them-a-minute/#comment-653 haha, well why not!? only a month or two off the job and you lose all your<br>journalistic instincts! :-p haha, well why not!? only a month or two off the job and you lose all your
journalistic instincts! :-p

]]> By: RexDixon http://siliconangle.com/blog/2009/08/05/teens-will-tweet-give-them-a-minute/comment-page-1/#comment-651 RexDixon Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:48:38 +0000 http://siliconangle.com/ver2/2009/08/05/teens-will-tweet-give-them-a-minute/#comment-651 Yeah, it wasn't like I was going to stand over them and go "Ok, cheap phone user - are you only texting or are you tweeting?" :) Yeah, it wasn't like I was going to stand over them and go “Ok, cheap phone user – are you only texting or are you tweeting?” :)

]]> By: Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins http://siliconangle.com/blog/2009/08/05/teens-will-tweet-give-them-a-minute/comment-page-1/#comment-645 Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:13:15 +0000 http://siliconangle.com/ver2/2009/08/05/teens-will-tweet-give-them-a-minute/#comment-645 Not to mention - it's impossible to tell whether or not the users of the cheap fones were using Twitter or not, since it's compatible with SMS protocol. Not to mention – it's impossible to tell whether or not the users of the cheap fones were using Twitter or not, since it's compatible with SMS protocol.

]]> By: RexDixon http://siliconangle.com/blog/2009/08/05/teens-will-tweet-give-them-a-minute/comment-page-1/#comment-642 RexDixon Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:30:54 +0000 http://siliconangle.com/ver2/2009/08/05/teens-will-tweet-give-them-a-minute/#comment-642 I was actually at a metal show last night locally (<a href="http://www.popsrocks.com" rel="nofollow">www.popsrocks.com</a>). <br><br>The audience was full of teens with cell phones. The ones with the good phones - saw twitter on them. The ones with the bad phones, they were still texting. <br><br>Teens will twitter when either 1. Their parents buy them a sweet iPhone, blackberry, G-1 whatever, etc... 2. They get a decent job and buy themselves an iPhone, blackberry, G-1 whateer, etc... Basically twitter is much more popular with the teen crowd than any Nielsen report can tell you. There are too many factors outside of just saying "Teens don't twitter, period - end of story." here. <br><br><a href="http://twitter.com/RexDixon/status/3136520499" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/RexDixon/status/3136520499</a> - and looks like the generation that twitter needs to worry about is getting a nice phone in the hands of the 8 year old mosher - <a href="http://twitter.com/RexDixon/status/3137943955" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/RexDixon/status/3137943955</a><br><br>So there you have it, from the front lines of where the teen ratio was probably about 9 to 1 - teens do twitter, just only the ones with the nice phones get it, and the ones with the older phones don't or rather still text. I was actually at a metal show last night locally (http://www.popsrocks.com).

The audience was full of teens with cell phones. The ones with the good phones – saw twitter on them. The ones with the bad phones, they were still texting.

Teens will twitter when either 1. Their parents buy them a sweet iPhone, blackberry, G-1 whatever, etc… 2. They get a decent job and buy themselves an iPhone, blackberry, G-1 whateer, etc… Basically twitter is much more popular with the teen crowd than any Nielsen report can tell you. There are too many factors outside of just saying “Teens don't twitter, period – end of story.” here.

http://twitter.com/RexDixon/status/3136520499 – and looks like the generation that twitter needs to worry about is getting a nice phone in the hands of the 8 year old mosher – http://twitter.com/RexDixon/status/3137943955

So there you have it, from the front lines of where the teen ratio was probably about 9 to 1 – teens do twitter, just only the ones with the nice phones get it, and the ones with the older phones don't or rather still text.

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