Not that many people actually use Twitter

[renard_ruse]

"Good news for publishers and news outlets! Over half of Twitter users use the service as a way to get news. These people also tend to be better educated and on their mobile devices all the time. But here's the bad news: Just 16 percent of U.S. adults are on Twitter at all.

That figure, from the Pew Research Center's latest report on U.S. news habits, is a fraction of the number of Americans who are on Facebook. Nearly two-thirds of the country's adults are Facebook users — and that doesn't count the young teens that Facebook depends on as a core demographic.

Twitter's low penetration rate makes its rapid insinuation into media and culture all the more impressive. A whole cottage industry has sprung up around writing articles about tweets and the people who tweet them. With the company set to IPO at a valuation of $13.6 billion, Twitter is soon going to become much more of a household name..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...04/nobody-uses-twitter-in-america-apparently/

 

[renard_ruse]

Twitter's low penetration rate makes its rapid insinuation into media and culture all the more impressive. A whole cottage industry has sprung up around writing articles about tweets and the people who tweet them...

I don't find it impressive at all. It just shows how phony a tool Twitter is for the establishment.

I've always found this reporting on things from Twitter to be BS and annoying.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Translation: "I'm too tech inept and not socially savvy enough to use Twitter, so I'm going to do some desperation punking to assuage my guilt of fail."

Generation X'er, he sez.

http://oldcatman-xxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/hysterical-laugh.gif

 

[renard_ruse]

Translation: "I'm too tech inept and not socially savvy enough to use Twitter, so I'm going to do some desperation punking to assuage my guilt of fail."

Lol. Twitter is a Potemkin village. The media "reports" on things from Twitter like its "news." Its not, and the statistics prove it.

Why doesn't the media report on what's discussed on this site or on other discussion forums?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Lol. Twitter is a Potemkin village. The media "reports" on things from Twitter like its "news." Its not, and the statistics prove it.

Since you don't — or more aptly, can't — use Twitter, you have no idea how much reach it has and how powerfully intersectional it actually is. Keep on data-mining fluctuating "statistics" gleaned from the internet looking in from the outside.

Why doesn't the media report on what's discussed on this site or on other discussion forums?

Why would they? As with here, most people in forum communities are just cut & paste whores and/or meme vectors of everything they find on other internet media sources. Just as what you did in this thread. You're not actually talking about Twitter and making original content in doing so, you're vectoring a disposable, narrow-view statistic.

 

[renard_ruse]

Since you don't — or more aptly, can't — use Twitter, you have no idea how much reach it has and how powerfully intersectional it actually is. Keep on data-mining fluctuating "statistics" gleaned from the internet looking in from the outside.



Why would they? As with here, most people in forum communities are just cut & paste whores and/or meme vectors of everything they find on other internet media sources. Just as what you did in this thread. You're not actually talking about Twitter and making original content in doing so, you're vectoring a disposable, narrow-view statistic.

Longwinded and verbose much, Rory?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Longwinded and verbose much, Rory?

Truth hurts, huh, Renny?

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md3ukoOYpm1qa6g1m.gif

 

[renard_ruse]

Truth hurts, huh, Renny?

Yeah, it must. How does it make you feel?

 

[renard_ruse]

How do internet discussion forums regain the attention that Twitter or even Facebook get?

The good old anonymous/ semi-anonymous internet forum is the true basis for all internet freedom. "Social media" is a way for the establishment to regain control over the internet and steer it in the direction they want it to go.

As one of the bigger internet discussion forums, Literotica should take the forefront in fighting for more publicity and respect for internet discussion forums. Literotica is morally obligated to fight to maintain and expand the world of the internet discussion forum.

 

[Disgustipated]

Do you follow Literotica on Twitter?

Lawlz.

 

[renard_ruse]

Do you follow Literotica on Twitter?

Lawlz.

I didn't know it was on Twitter. That sucks. Shame on Laurel or whoever runs this place.

 

[renard_ruse]

Ok, so I tried to make a joke and I looked dumb. Score one for Rory.

https://twitter.com/Literotica_com

Still, it hardly looks like the Lit twitter account is burning up the place. There are less Lit tweets than renard_ruse posts on Lit itself. Less than 6,000 followers. Proof that twitter is not very important.

 

[Disgustipated]

Rory weighs heavy on your little brain.

 

[renard_ruse]

Rory weighs heavy on your little brain.

I have an unusually large brain, nimrod.

 

[Disgustipated]

I have an unusually large brain, nimrod.

You should probably use it more often then.

 

[girlsmiley]

"Good news for publishers and news outlets! Over half of Twitter users use the service as a way to get news. These people also tend to be better educated and on their mobile devices all the time. But here's the bad news: Just 16 percent of U.S. adults are on Twitter at all.

That figure, from the Pew Research Center's latest report on U.S. news habits, is a fraction of the number of Americans who are on Facebook. Nearly two-thirds of the country's adults are Facebook users — and that doesn't count the young teens that Facebook depends on as a core demographic.

Twitter's low penetration rate makes its rapid insinuation into media and culture all the more impressive. A whole cottage industry has sprung up around writing articles about tweets and the people who tweet them. With the company set to IPO at a valuation of $13.6 billion, Twitter is soon going to become much more of a household name..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...04/nobody-uses-twitter-in-america-apparently/

I don't see what the big deal is, Ruse.

If publishers and news outlets want to broaden their horizons a bit and try to advertise their businesses and appeal to different groups of people via Twitter, who cares?

I realise more people use Facebook than Twitter, and that Twitter as a whole appeals to more teens than adults, but as some sort of platform for news? I don't know. Headlines, perhaps. I'm not sure how popular that'd be for the 84% of adults (according to your article) given that users are limited to 140 characters. Links, I suppose. A link here, a link there. How many close friends do you know who use Twitter at all? I know a couple, and I have many friends.

Anyhow. Personally, Twitter doesn't interest me. Not for news. I'll stick with teh Sydney morning Herald.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I don't see what the big deal is, Ruse.

Retard Ruse is honor-bound to denigrate anything and everything he doesn't like and/or doesn't understand. Usually the latter applies.

 

[girlsmiley]

Retard Ruse is honor-bound to denigrate anything and everything he doesn't like and/or doesn't understand. Usually the latter applies.

I've noticed he prefers rugby and rugby league to American football, so I'll cut him some slack.

BUT ONLY THIS ONE TIME, RUSE.

(AND PERHAPS ANOTHER TIME BECAUSE I CHANGE MY MIND A LOT).