Who’s Using Twitter
In our previous post, Why Use Twitter, we continued our new series, all about Twitter, and talked some of the great reasons to use Twitter, with a few real world examples. By the way, we go into much more detail about our Infinite Pipeline Relationship Development process in our new book, The Infinite Pipeline: How to Master Social Media for B2B Sales Success – Sales Person Edition. See the bottom of this post for more info.
In this post, we continue the Twitter series, and talk about who is using it, with a look a demographic trends, as well as major enterprises using Twitter.
Some rights reserved by joelazWho’s Using Twitter?
Far from being a tool for teenagers, Twitter is widely used across all age demographics. Yes, the median age of a twitter user is 31, but take a look at some relevant findings from a recent Pew Internet & American Life Project[1] study that measured the percentage of online adults who have used Twitter or other status updating service:[2]
- 19 percent of American Internet users
- Male — 17 percent; Female — 21 percent
- Just 8 percent of online teens say they ever use Twitter[3]
- 9 percent of Whites, 15 percent of African-Americans, 16 percent Hispanics (English)
Figure 41 — Twitter Age Demographics
Not convinced it’s for you? Take a look at a partial list of the Twitter handles of enterprises, large and small:
Table 6 — Enterprises Using Twitter
| @ATT | @ATTCustomerCare | @ATTDeals |
| @BestBuy | @BlackBerry | @CiscoSystems) |
| @CMEGroup) | @Comcastcares | @DellCares |
| @DellEnterprise | @DellOutletUK | @Direct2Dell |
| @Ernst_and_Young | @FordCustService | @FordDriveGreen |
| @FordMustang | @FordRacing | @HRBlock |
| @Intel | @JetBlue | @KPMG |
| @Kraft_Cadbury | @Mayoclinic | @McDonaldsCorp |
| @MyStarbucksIdea | @Nikebaseball | @Nikegolf |
| @Nikestore | @Oracle | @PopeyesChicken |
| @SamsungMobileUS | @SonyPictures | @SouthwestAir |
| @Thehomedepot | @WholeFoods |
OK, assuming you no longer believe Twitter is trivial, let’s see how to go about using it, in our next post on Friday.
Next up: How to Use Twitter?
Who’s Using Twitter is the 102nd in a series of excerpts from our book, Be a Person: the Social Operating Manual for Enterprises (itself part of a series for different audiences). We’re just past page 291. At this rate it’ll be a long time before we get through all 430 pages, but luckily, if you’re impatient, the book is available in paper form at bit.ly/OrderBeAPerson and you can save $5 using Coupon Code 6WXG8ABP2
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What Others Are Saying
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[1] Pew Internet: Portrait of a Twitter user: Status update demographics: bit.ly/do6g9K
[2] Pew Internet: The Twitter Question: bit.ly/9y4821
[3] Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project Report List and Summaries of Research on Teens and Technology Use (2007-2010): bit.ly/ckiYK0
