Comments on: Does Twitter Appeal to a More Professional Demographic Than MySpace or FaceBook?

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:24:41 +0000

Interesting outlook. Really, I feel as though it depends on what market you are in. Internet Marketers are loving Twitter right now (as well as facebook when it comes to PPC). But, I’d imagine that professional skateboarders and things are probably less likely to be found on Twitter as they are to some of the other social platforms. Thats just a guess though.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:27:48 +0000

You’re right, internet marketers are the loving Twitter.

One thing I would like to clarify about this article is that I believe age as a demographic is relatively flexible because there are always 18yo’s who are more mature than some people in their 50’s. There’s also a clear division between people who are using computers and the internet to further their career or earnings as opposed to people who use the internet primarily to socalize.

By: Janelle (CCGAL)

Janelle (CCGAL) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:29:01 +0000

You’ve posed a good question, and I think your descriptions of MySpace vs FaceBook are spot on. However, I think LinkedIn is “the place” for professional connections. It is more difficult to fake one’s credentials there, and since there’s no place for goofy applications, the result is a much more professional atmosphere.

Twitter is more like a huge cocktail party than a professional meeting place, although one can certainly utilize it in the manner you have described.

Good blog post, by the way. I enjoyed it.

By: Mary Bradford

Mary Bradford — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:53:30 +0000

I was going to say “what about LinkedIn” but Janelle beat me to it.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:03:59 +0000

Thanks for the comments Janelle and Mary. @Janelle, I like the analogy of Twitter as a huge cocktail party. Spot on with that one. I was going to mention LinkedIn because I use both LinkedIn and Plaxo to connect with people I’ve worked for/with in the past but the idea for this article came up when I was trying to show my Myspace/Facebook addicted friend how Twitter was useful and he said “Twitter is for old people” ;-)

I was originally going to title the article “Does Twitter Attract an Older Crowd Than MySpace or FaceBook” but I wasn’t sure how people would react to the word “older” !!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:05:48 +0000

OMG, now I’ve gone and done it. Google Adsense ads are showing “selling to Seniors” and “Free Boomer Newsletter”…

By: Øjenoperation

Øjenoperation — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:52:22 +0000

I guess you are right about the more professional are using Twitter. And because it is fast to “push” your marketing to people, it is better that e.g. MySpace.

By: Murphy Law

Murphy Law — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:09:39 +0000

I’ve just signed up for Twitter a week ago… I just don’t get it… is there anything to it beyond status updates?

By: Philip06

Philip06 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:11:37 +0000

Twitter is an excellent and great way to keep people up-to-date with what you are up to, and what you are doing between your emails and blog posts. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

By: Mouse

Mouse — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:15:37 +0000

For me Twitter became much more interesting and useful when I started to follow some of the leaders in the areas related to my work.

I’ve found great new forums, good blog posts, and interesting articles that I might never would have seen otherwise. I’ve answered a few questions and seen others get quick answers to their questions.

Now, I understand Twitter better.

By: francophile

francophile — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:51:57 +0000

I find that my Twitter “followers” aren’t really following “me” at all like they do on Facebook. They are following a number, if you know what I mean. It’s been kind of frustrating for me. I don’t expect many to be following me but it’s too bad I can’t get a bite on a link or blog post after a day or two.

By: Drew Stevenson

Drew Stevenson — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:02:12 +0000

Twitter, and even more so, LinkedIn, appeal to a more professional demographic, as you put it; it’s obvious to me when I see the bio’s and sites of the people that are following me.

The interface makes it much more simple to remove someone if you discover that they are essentially spamming the network with their offers.

By: Gerard Lacroix

Gerard Lacroix — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:23:52 +0000

I was thinking the same thing myself as I was looking through who I am following on Twitter.

By: Harveen

Harveen — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:39:46 +0000

Twitter is more spam free from my view. Facebook and myspace are also good, but twitter has more exposure as compared with both of them. Twitter is used by people of all ages if we see the demographic graph. Thanks for the post :)

By: Pandora

Pandora — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:59:23 +0000

According to my perception, twitter is much better than facebook, as it has many interesting features compared with other two social networking sites.

By: Zinruss

Zinruss — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:26:43 +0000

“Does Twitter Appeal to a More Professional Demographic Than MySpace or FaceBook?” —-of course its better than other 2,its features r extra-odinary!

By: John

John — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:04:27 +0000

you have a good question there, personally i think twitter is getting more and more famous, i have just joined twitter and finding it to be a great place. It gonna get high in competition.

By: Harveen

Harveen — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:11:23 +0000

@talwinder—yes “twitter” is best from both others but in this matter ,it “matters” for what purpose it is used?,rest depends on user’s knowledge

By: Web Designer

Web Designer — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:06:50 +0000

@solid snake–
it’s just amatter of time
whts help you? people commented only afer their usage?

By: Joe Turner

Joe Turner — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:18:18 +0000

nielsen.com just released some new dempographics on Twiiter. This is what they had to say :

Twitterers (a.k.a. Tweeters) are not primarily teens or college students as you might expect. In fact, in February the largest age group on Twitter was 35-49; with nearly 3 million unique visitors, comprising almost 42 percent of the site’s audience. We found that the majority of people visit Twitter.com while at work, with 62 percent of the combo unique audience accessing the site from work only versus 35 percent that accessed it from home only.

By: BP

BP — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:15:18 +0000

@SIRIUS-BLACK
“face-book” is for beginners to use,
“my-space” is for above beginners although,
“TWITTER” ISFOR “PRO-FESS-IONALS”

By: Billy Cook

Billy Cook — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:57:59 +0000

I think Twitter definitely has a leg up for business compared to a site such as Linked-in. The community aspect is what is compelling.

By: Wendy Rahilly

Wendy Rahilly — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:31:02 +0000

I find Twitter to be a very useful tool and is becoming much more popular these days. I use it all the time and find it to be helpful.

By: Murray Newlands

Murray Newlands — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:17:05 +0000

My twitter competition is attracting people from divers backgrounds. I think as twitter matures it will see the same effect as Facebook that it attracts people from every section of society. I think this will happen faster then it did for Facebook.

Murray

By: Harveen

Harveen — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:43:54 +0000

it is good definate age group thats sure

By: Vent Letters

Vent Letters — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:30:22 +0000

If twitter is what’s new, then what’s next? I mean this is getting ridiculous. When people tell me they send me an email and I check my email and tell them they haven’t, they explain oh “I messaged you on Facebook.” Really?? Not only will my unborn children have to learn multiple foreign languages to compete, they’ll have to learn this crap too. I really do wonder what’s next though. lol.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:08:14 +0000

Like alot of people on here I struggled to see the point of twitter in the past. I think thats always the intial first impression.

But once you get people following you and your following them you see that it can actually br very versatile and powerful, yes there is people that say things like im off to the toilet or off to get a drink-which to be honest were not really interested in but then out of the blue they will deliver a mindblowing story or news item they “just came across” while browsing the web then this goes viral throughout twitter.

I like to think of it as “online life” it gives the intangible internet a grounding towards reality.

By: Mikki

Mikki — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:57:19 +0000

I love Twitter. One group I find not mentioned is sports fanatics using Twitter. I chat with a lot of people about my passion, soccer every day and get some good links from people there.

By: jasmine

jasmine — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:56:30 +0000

I don’t think the sign up process for facebook is tough?It’s just depends on what type of information you would like it to be displayed.Twitter is the gold mine now.Many people does marketing through that source!

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:31:40 +0000

What I like about Twitter is there is a whole range of users on the site - from business and musicians to the average Joe. It’s - in a way - a meeting place for all such users.

That said, it provides a great way to get the word out for businesses. In a few seconds, hundreds or even thousands of people could have your status update.

By: eros veneziani

eros veneziani — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:23:43 +0000

YOU ARE SUCH AN ONLINE-MARKETER”WHEN YOU ARE INVOLVED IN TWITTER STUFF”$

By: Side Turkey

Side Turkey — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:56:22 +0000

I think you are right. and must say that your observation is very good. more important is to get assciated with a few quality people than with a thousand people. twitter definitely has lot of proffessionals attached.

By: Paul Australia

Paul Australia — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:34:08 +0000

Hm… I don’t think that twitter can be compared with facebook or myspace. It is completely different service which has slightly other features.

However, I agree twitter=professionals, myspace(facebook)=users

By: Paisakamana

Paisakamana — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:00:23 +0000

I would not compare the three services against eachother, but rather look at twitter, facebook, myspace and other social communities as an opportunity to promote affiliate marketing products to 3 different audiences.