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Over 100 mn people joined Twitter in 2010 | It seems microblogging site Twitter is here to stay. According to a statement released by the company, more than 100 million people have joined Twitter this
year, bringing the total to 200 million twitterers worldwide. And some of the
famous joiners this year include Tiger Woods, Bill Gates, Kanye West and Cher,
reports the Telegraph. The site is widely recognised as a vital source of breaking
news and views, providing real-time, eyewitness accounts of events such as the
Iran election protests, the crash-landing of an aircraft on the Hudson River,
and the earthquake in Haiti. The Pew Internet & American Life Project has published
more detailed statistics on Twitter in a separate report. It claims that eight
percent of American adult Internet users are on Twitter, although the figure rose
to 14 percent for 18-29 year-olds. Almost a quarter of Twitter users check the
service several times a day, although 21 percent said they never checked it at
all, suggesting that some people sign up to the service, but don't use it. The
study also revealed that African-American and Latino adult Internet users in the
United States were twice as likely as white American adults to use Twitter. Pew's
study found that around 13 percent of Latino adult web users and 18 percent of
African-American adult web users also use Twitter, compared to just eight percent
of white adults. It added that minority groups are bigger users of the microblogging
service because they are younger and more connected to mobile technology. "Both
of those groups, African-American and Latino adult Internet users in the US, tend
to be younger than white Internet users, which helps to lead to their adoption
of Twitter," said Aaron Smith, a senior research specialist with the Pew project.
"Both of those groups are also very mobile populations in their use of cell phones
in particular to access the web. Overall, non-whites are more likely than white
cell phone owners to do a range of non-voice tasks on their cell phones. They
are more likely to use instant messaging and social networking on their phones,"
he added.
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