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If You're On Facebook, You're Likely A...

Reuters | Lucas Shaw | Posted 05.12.2012

By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Do social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have a liberal bias? "Internet us...

Twitter Finally Shares Key Stats

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 11.08.2011

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has finally shared some highly-anticipated statistics that shed light on just how many active users the service has, as well ...

Bianca Bosker

Why Are African Americans More Likely To Join Twitter?

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 10.02.2011

African Americans are more likely than whites to use Twitter -- and the gap is growing. Experts have attributed the difference in Twitter uptake am...

$7 Billion?

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 09.05.2011

A little bird is chirping dollar signs: Social messaging service Twitter could be valued at as high as $7 billion, according to the Wall Street Journa...

The Fastest-Growing Demographic On Twitter Is...

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 08.01.2011

More people are tweeting than ever before. A new report from Pew Research shows that 13 percent of online adults are using the service, up from 8 p...

Twitter: We Now Have Over 200 Million Accounts

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 06.28.2011

See update below Twitter has released a slew of statistics in recent months, from how many tweets are sent per day to the number of accounts creat...

Twitter Still Dominated By Noisy Minority, Study Finds

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.28.2011

See update below Cornell University and Yahoo! Research have released a ten-page research report that offers insight into how content is being crea...

How Twitter Changed In 2010

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

Facebook may have seen its chief executive honored as TIME's person of the year, but Twitter has presided over many of its own successes in 2010. It ...

8% Of Americans Use Twitter And More Stats You Need To See

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

Earlier this year, Twitter boasted that the site had grown to around 190 million users who tweet around 65 million times each day. These statistics...

Twitter Passes MySpace

WSJ | Amir Efrati | Posted 05.25.2011

Last month the four-year-old micro-blogging service surpassed MySpace in unique visitors to become the No. 3 social networking-type service in the wor...

GUESS WHO: Twitter's 10 Most Retweeted Users

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

The social media analysts at Klout have created an infographic highlighting the top 10 most retweeted Twitter users. As Klout points out, none of ...

Twitter Stats Reveal Few Americans Use Twitter, Although Most Know It (STUDY)

Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

A new report by Edison Research on Twitter usage in the United States indicates that although awareness of Twitter has skyrocketed since 2008, only a...

Twitter Stats Revealed

Posted 05.25.2011

UPDATED 4/30/2010 10:06AM ET: A new study, released April 2010, examines Twitter usage in the United States, finding that although most Americans are ...

Facebook Growth Continues, Twitter Falls Further Behind

TechCrunch | Posted 05.25.2011

Although Facebook recently admitted that Twitter was in its rear-view mirror, it appears that Twitter may be moving out of eyeshot. September's U.S. c...

Twitter's Growth: Has It Peaked?

Posted 05.25.2011

With news that Twitter secured $100 million in funding -- double the initial projection -- and netted a $1 billion valuation, this may be the first bi...

How We Tweet: In A Car, From A Toilet

mashable.com | Posted 05.25.2011

A survey conducted by Crowd Science gives us some insight into the habits of Twitter users, compared to users of other social media sites. While fa...

Twitter Research Shows Men Follow Men, Nobody Tweets

Posted 05.25.2011

Twitter has attracted tremendous attention from the media and celebrities, but there is much uncertainty about Twitter's purpose. Is Twitter a communi...

A Completely Unscientific Pie Chart Of Who Uses Twitter And Why

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

The people over at Brainz.org made pie charts describing the users of all the major social networking sites, and one I've never heard of called "Prope...