{"id":494,"date":"2009-08-27T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestdatacompany.info\/asgroupinc\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-08-27T04:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T04:01:00","slug":"whos-driving-twitters-popularity-not-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asgroupinc.com\/whos-driving-twitters-popularity-not-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Driving Twitter\u2019s Popularity? Not Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"More Articles by Claire Cain Miller\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/m\/claire_cain_miller\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">CLAIRE CAIN MILLER<\/a><br \/>Published: August 25, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Kristen Nagy, an 18-year-old from Sparta, N.J., sends and receives 500 <a title=\"More articles about text messaging.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/t\/text_messaging\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">text messages<\/a> a day. But she never uses <a title=\"More articles about Twitter.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/twitter\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Twitter<\/a>, even though it publishes similar snippets of conversations and observations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think it\u2019s weird and I don\u2019t feel like everyone needs to know what I\u2019m doing every second of my life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Her reluctance to use Twitter, a feeling shared by others in her age group, has not doomed the microblogging service. Just 11 percent of its users are aged 12 to 17, according to <a title=\"More information about comScore, Inc\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/comscore-inc\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">comScore<\/a>. Instead, Twitter\u2019s unparalleled explosion in popularity has been driven by a decidedly older group. That success has shattered a widely held belief that young people lead the way to popularizing innovations.<\/p>\n<p>To read the entire article, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/26\/technology\/internet\/26twitter.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/26\/technology\/internet\/26twitter.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CLAIRE CAIN MILLERPublished: August 25, 2009 Kristen Nagy, an 18-year-old from Sparta, N.J., sends and receives 500 text messages a day. 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