Social media remain healthy and still on the rise ......
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With 8% growth, social media still on the rise - as Facebook users get older
Social media remain healthy - 45m status updates a day are posted by Facebook users, whose average age has risen to 33
The use of social media is still growing: a survey has revealed that 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves or see updates about others.
This is a significant increase of 8% - in previous surveys from April 2009 and December 2008 the figure was just 11%. Furthermore the report, based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research International of 2,253 adults, matches the expectations of companies such as Twitter and Facebook.
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It will become even harder to measure use of social platforms in the near future, as from this year a lot of social platforms began to connect deeper and deeper with status updates fed from Twitter into Facebook and vice-versa.
But one thing is undeniable: Facebook users are getting a lot older. Its median age is now 33, up from 26 in May 2008, while the average Twitterer is still 31, a figure that has remained stable over the past year. By comparison, MySpace users' median age is 26, down from 27 in May 2008, while LinkedIn is 39, down from 40.
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