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Twitter loved in restaurants, theaters, cars and…toilets

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Sep 24, 2009 
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Edward Barrera  |
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Twitter loved in restaurants, theaters, cars and…toilets

twitter_small.jpgADOTAS — I guess it’s better than talking on the cell phone.

According to a survey conducted by Crowd Science, 17% of Twitter users vs. 12% of non-Twitter social media users had accessed social media from a washroom or toilet. And nearly three times as many Twitter users as other social media users have accessed social media from restaurants (31% vs. 12%). In addition, twice as many Twitter users as non-Twitter social media users (8% to 4%) had accessed any social media from a theater during a movie or live performance.

Unfortunately, 11 percent of Twitter users also admitted to accessing social media while driving during the preceding 30 days, compared with just 5% of other social media users.

“Twitter is more of a mobile media phenomenon than other social networks, so these results, while a little disturbing, are perhaps not so surprising,” according to John Martin, CEO of Crowd Science. “And even though checking updates outpaces tweeting by almost two to one, the bottom line is that either type of activity takes a driver’s attention away from the road.”

Crowd Science found that only a quarter (27%) of Twitter users tweet daily, while nearly half (46%) check updates daily. In addition, 24% of Twitters users have never tweeted, or have ceased doing so. According to the survey, some 40% of Twitter users access the service via mobile at least sometimes (compared with 32% for Facebook users, for example), and 8% use mobile all the time (vs. 3% for Facebook).

Crowd Science also surveyed the attitudes of Twitter users, finding a significant number to be reluctant social media users, who use the applications because friends and contacts do (17%) or because stopping or reducing its use would be damaging to their social status (15%.).

Almost one-third (32%) of Twitter users feel they spend too much time using social media, nearly a quarter (22%) say they’ve written things on social media that they’ve later regretted, and 16% report that they often neglect important activities to spend time on social media.

Yet exactly a quarter of Twitter users say social media is their favorite leisure activity (compared with 14% of non-Twitter social media users).

Other survey results include:

- 41% of Twitter users prefer to contact friends via social media rather than telephone, compared with 25% of non-Twitter social media users, and 11% (vs. only 6% of those not using Twitter) actually prefer social media over face-to-face contacts. Indeed, 14% of Twitter users said they have revealed things about themselves in social media that they wouldn’t under any other circumstances. Then again, 8% admitted to “frequently stretching” the truth about themselves online.

- More than twice as many males than females (32% to 15%) access Twitter primarily through a third-party application. Overall, 43% of Twitter users employ a third-party application at least some of the time, and 26% as their main mode of access.

- Twitter users tend to be older than non-Twitter social media users (54% over 30 years old, vs. 42%), twice as likely to be self-employed or entrepreneurs (18% vs. 9%) and to be planning to start a business during the next six months, and more tech-savvy (24% vs. 15% “buy gadgets/devices when they first come out,” 48% vs. 30% have created a website, and nearly four of ten (37%) currently maintain a blog, twice as many as non-Twitter social media users).

The Crowd Science study on Twitter and other social media users was conducted across more than 600,000 visitors to multiple websites within the Crowd Science open research network. The survey, targeting social media users age 12 and up, was conducted August 5-13, 2009.





Reader Comments.

Very interesting information Edward. Some of it was fairly obvious to going in, but other data like being and entrepreneur or self-employed is very interesting. Thanks!

Posted by RestaurantZoom | 5:14 am on September 24, 2009.

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