8% of Online Adults Use Twitter Every Day [STUDY]

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Of 2,253 U.S. online adults surveyed in a recent Pew study, 15% said they use Twitter. Among the same population, 8% said they use the service on a typical day day.

Growth in daily Twitter usage, by Pew's measure, has grown 300% since November 2010 -- outpacing growth in general Twitter usage, which increased 87.5% during the same time period.

Men and women are almost equally likely to say they used the service, but young adults, African Americans, and urban residents have high rates of Twitter usage relative to their peers.

Twitter says that it has 140 million users, making its community about 45% the size of the U.S. population. Usage of the network still doesn't come close to Facebook, however, which claims 901 million active users.

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