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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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More in: Social Networking, Web 2.0
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Media Mention
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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Media Mention
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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More in: Health, Social Networking
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Media Mention
Ian Shapira, Washington Post
Oct 15, 2009
Tomek Kott is so stubborn about not joining his friends -- in truth, nearly his entire generation -- on any social networking site that his wife launched a mini-crusade against him. Exploiting a tactic surely befitting our times, she whipped up a Fac...
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More in: Teens, Social Networking
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Media Mention
Bob Moos, The Dallas Morning News
Oct 12, 2009
Eighty-three-year-old Virgil Heidbrink has found what he thinks is the perfect place to retire. He's met many interesting people there. Every day, they share their life stories and favorite jokes. And he's convinced that the new social connections ar...
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More in: Seniors, Social Networking
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Presentation
Oct 8, 2009Amanda Lenhart
Senior Research Specialist Amanda Lenhart's presentation, "Twitter and Status Updating: Demographics, Mobile Access and News Consumption," given at AoIR 10.0 in Milwaukee, WI on October 8, 2009.
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More in: News, Social Networking
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Infographic
Oct 8, 2009
The percentage of adult internet users on social network sites from 2005-2009. From Amanda Lenhart's presentation, The Democratization of Online Social Networks.
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Infographic
Oct 8, 2009
The proportion of age groups in the SNS population compared to its representation in the overall internet population for 2005 and 2009. From Amanda Lenhart's presentation, The Democratization of Online Social Networks.
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More in: Social Networking, Generations
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Presentation
Oct 8, 2009Amanda Lenhart
A look at the changes in demographics of social network users since 2005.
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More in: Social Networking, Generations, Women and Men
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Media Mention
Marisa Taylor, Wall Street Journal | Digits
Oct 7, 2009
When it comes to social-networking sites, women are more plugged in than men, according to data analysis by Brian Solis, president of Silicon Valley public-relations firm Future Works.
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Aaron Smith, a research specialist at the Pew Internet an...
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More in: Social Networking, Women and Men