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Haya El Nasser, USA Today
Oct 23, 2009
The Census Bureau is well-known for asking questions. Now it will answer them, too.
The agency's new 2010census.gov website went up this week and, when it is officially launched Monday will give people a chance to do the questioning.
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Marisa Taylor, Wall Street Journal | Digits
Oct 23, 2009
One out of five Internet users now say they use Twitter or some other service to share status updates about themselves, or to keep tabs on others, according to new data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
In a survey of more than 2,200 ...
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Suzanne Choney, MSNBC
Oct 21, 2009
Nearly one in five Internet users is tweeting on Twitter or using another service to share personal and business updates, or to see updates about others, according to a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That's an increase to 19...
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Andy Carvin, NPR
Oct 21, 2009
The Pew Internet and American Life Project today released a new report on the growing popularity of Twitter and other services used by people to post status updates to the Internet. According to the report, 19% of Internet users in September 2009 sai...
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Martha Irvine, Associated Press
Oct 21, 2009
They think it's pointless, narcissistic. Some don't even know what it is.
Even so, more young adults and teens - normally at the cutting edge of technology - are finally coming around to Twitter, using it for class or work, monitoring the minutiae...
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Infographic
Oct 21, 2009
Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% of inter...
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ABC News | Ahead of the Curve
Oct 21, 2009
In an interview on ABC's Ahead of the Curve, Susannah Fox said that status updating services' rapid growth is due mostly to younger users, people who use social networking sites, and mobile users.
"This is a generation that likes to share,...
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Report
Oct 21, 2009Susannah Fox, Kathryn Zickuhr, Aaron Smith
Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others--up from 11% in April.
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Olga Kharif and Aaron Ricadela, BusinessWeek
Oct 21, 2009
Google and Microsoft have more than each other to contend with in the lucrative market for Internet advertising. Increasingly, when Web surfers want information online, they're bypassing those rectangular search boxes on the home pages of Google and ...
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V. Dion Haynes, Washington Post
Oct 19, 2009
[...] Online health sites have been booming in the past five years, experts say, driven by the popularity of social networking and patients' desire to become more empowered in the increasingly complex medical field. Many of the sites have recently ex...
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