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# Who's on Twitter
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/whos-on-twitter/
- Published: 2008-08-25T11:40:53.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:21:28.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Social, Systems

Interesting story on TIme.com from the Hitwise folks about Twitter demographics.

> I figured that the service would appeal exclusively to youngsters with nothing better to do. The user data, however, tell me I’m wrong, and reveal a very specific user profile: for example, males make up 63% of Twitterers, specifically males from California, whose residents account for more than 57% of Twitter’s visitors. More interestingly, the age demographics of Twitterers show a dramatic shift. When the site became popular in early 2007, the majority of its visitors were 18-to-24-year-olds. Today the site’s largest age demographic is 35-to-44-year-olds, who make up 25.9% of its users. \[[Even Gen X is aTwitter – TIME](https://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1834131,00.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]