Twitter not for teens, better for adults

Many of you already know that I sing the praises of Twitter. I mean, where else on this planet can you easily connect and converse with your idols. But I guess not everyone agrees with me. According to the Las Cruces Sun-News Twitter has already gone bust with regard to teens online.

According to the article “it’s been determined Twitter is a bust, a report shows; it cannot be called a “fad” anymore. Today, only 8 percent of online teens twit or is that tweet?”

Well, I might be a little out of touch with what teens want or what they find important. But 14 years ago when I entered teen-hood the most important things to me was, well, ME and the community of other teenagers around me. I would assume that teenagers of today feel the same way. That only makes sense that Twitter wouldn’t be for them. That’s what Facebook is for; connecting with those people you are friends with. But Twitter, that’s the place you go to connect with people you don’t know in real life. My twitter account is peppered with other bloggers that I have become aquainted with over through cyber space, companies, new sources, and other organizations that I want to get fed daily information so that I don’t have to go searching for it. Bloggers will tweet links to their posts. News sources tweet links to breaking news stories. Like I said, information gets hand fed to me and saves me the trouble of going to search for it.

As a teenager, I couldn’t care less about news stories. So perhaps the Las Cruces Sun-News and I do agree that Twitter is not for teens and is basically busted for that particular demographic. But is Twitter completely busted? I don’t think so. I think companies and bloggers should gear their marketing on twitter towards adults 25-35. I think that’s the demographic that is getting the most use from the application, definitely not teens.