Poll: Age Demographics of Twitter Users

While tweeting a thought I had moments ago about why it seems that Twitter is mostly Adult / Older aged users I had the idea to publish a poll to get a general understanding as to the actual average Age of Twitter users!

Please be honest, and select your age bracket in the poll below! Of course I urge you to tell others so we can make this poll as acurate and useful as possible! Thank you for participating, and passing the word! RETWEET!

If you are a Twitter user, what is your age bracket?

30 - 39 years (32%, 512 Votes)
20 - 29 years (28%, 455 Votes)
40 - 49 years (21%, 343 Votes)
50 - 59 years (10%, 161 Votes)
16 - 19 years (5%, 73 Votes)
60 - 69 years (2%, 25 Votes)
10 - 15 years (1%, 16 Votes)
80+ years (0%, 7 Votes)
70 - 79 years (0%, 6 Votes)

Total Voters: 1,598

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Grace Too

Just goes to show you that post-boomers and cougars are more social ;)

Bradford Shimp

Perhaps one reason for an older demographic is because Twitter is so easy. There is no learning curve and it doesn't eat up our valuable time. @bradfordshimp

Abstracts of Nature

Without seeing any results I would have expected Twitter to attract an older demographic as younger age groups seem more into Facebook, which IMO is more hard work.

Ed Parry

There's not many social networking/microblogging websites that would have votes for every age up to 80+! That's pretty cool!

I agree with @bradfordshimp, it really is so simple, but can be very effective when it needs to be!

lucinda

Ummmm - as one of the 50-59ers, I kind of resent the implication that we old folks use twitter mainly because it is easy -- which implies that we are dumb.
I designed my first website in '95 - how many of you young whipper-snappers can say that? ;-) (BTW, you can also find me on FB - taxing as it may be on my poor old braincells.)

Bev

Right on, lucinda! I never thought I would refer to anyone as a "young whipper-snapper," but in this case, the term applies!

Reba Chin

You've caused an existential dilemna: I am 29, going to be 30 in less than a month. WHAT category do I fall in? Which one do I associate with?
I'm unsure!

artgrrl

so I fall in the biggest category, neat! I'll retweet this

Leon

Great post! Thanks

Lesley Dewar

Twitter grade 91%
Age category 2%

Yay for the oldies

Ewan(34)

title should have been "If you are a Twitter user, and are willing to fill in surveys, what is your age bracket?"... I assume younguns are less likely to spend time on surveys (let alone leaving comments too :-)

Alex Bowles

So twitter is for grownups. Nice.

And props to 'Abstract' - it's not about being 'easy' (i.e. dumbed down for slow folks). It's about limiting transactions costs for people who are actually quite busy.

The design of Facebook / MySpace, etc. seems to favor people with more time than money.

TheBusyBrain

Thank you to everyone for contributing to the Poll! I am now closing it because some blogs are requesting a finalized number to base their analysis off of.

Anyone is free to use these numbers if they wish!

Shameka

Wow, fascinating to know! Thanks for sharing! :)

abennett11

Be careful when interpreting the data. What this is really asking is "what are the demographics of Twitter Users who also read this web site?" That's also an interesting question, but not the same thing as the demographics of all Twitter users.

TheBusyBrain

@abennett11 - Thanks for the input, and I see what you are saying! This certainly is not a broad spectrum statistical analysis of the true demographics of Twitter. Only Twitter themselves could pull off that feat.

Being that nearly 1600 people participated, I analyzed the incoming links, and you may be surprised to realize that 96% of the incoming traffic to this particular article came directly from Twitter, or from a Twitter based application. NOT from random daily web traffic! It was the power of the Retweet!

TomTom

Man, I would love to get with a cougar.

thattalldude

It's nearly a year old, but I wrote a blog post that relates to this which you might find interesting. "On Twitter, Age Doesn't Matter" http://www.thattalldude.com/main/2008/04/on-twi...

Manz

Didn't expect those results. Can not believe I'm in the demographic that uses Twitter the most. Never would have guessed that.

I thought the short conversation (restrictions on message length) would have been right up genX's alley - those with a shorter attention span.

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