May 2012
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New Twitter stats: 15% of online adults use...
We’ve got brand spanking new Twitter numbers out today! As of February 2012, overall Twitter adoption by online adults is at 15%, which has remained steady since May 2011, when overall Twitter adoption by Internet users was 13%. Notably, though, the % of online adults who use Twitter on a typical day has doubled since May 2011 and has quadrupled since late 2010—at that point just 2% of...
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Have a great weekend!
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“Memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by keywords and URLs....”
– Amber Case, cyberanthropologist and CEO of Geoloqi, in our report on the future of millennials’ hyperconnected lives.
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229: The average number of friends a person has on... →
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Mobile: Fast facts
88% of American adults have a cell phone, 57% have a laptop, 19% own an e-book reader, and 19% have a tablet computer; about six in ten adults (63%) go online wirelessly with one of those devices.
Among cell phone owners, 53% own a smartphone as of February 2012. This means that 46% of all American adults own a smartphone.
Some 70% of all cell phone owners and 86% of smartphone owners have used...
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“We have also learned from our focus groups that some youth feel pressure to add...”
– The Digital Media and Learning Research Hub has a great Q&A with our teens expert Amanda Lenhart on some of the hot topics related to youth, social networking and web 2.0.
Read the full Q&A
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New report out today: Teens & Online Video
When we asked teens about a number of online behaviors in our July 2011 Teens and Online Behavior survey, we found that when it comes to video:
37% of internet users ages 12-17 participate in video chats with others using applications such as Skype, Googletalk or iChat. Girls are more likely than boys to have such chats.
27% of internet-using teens 12-17 record and upload video to the...
