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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
As of Sept 2014, Pew Research found the following usage stats for social media
As of September 2014:
71% of online adults use Facebook
23% of online adults use Twitter
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Which is for those who post per month. A lot of people don't particularly notice Twitter unless there is a major news story developing and then Twitter lights up.
And I think all of us who use Facebook know of Tweets that get shared onto Facebook.
If you look at the original post, it was saying (paraphrasing) Tweets gets shared, retweeted, then shared on Facebook, shared again and suddenly its everywhere. So even if you think, oh, only 23% use Twitter, if it gets shared to Facebook, that's 71%. And in the interim it gets reported - cable news is just one place, it's on internet news sites as well... and even more, its on internet entertainment sites. And beyond that, just about every popular show has hastags they promote, and sometimes ghosted on the bottom right of the screen, and I'm guessing most people know what that's for.
Remember the whole Kanye is $53mil in debt thing that exploded all over the entertainment media (mostly by folks who had schadenfreude, of course). That started with a tweet Kanye put up in the context of his The Life of Pablo release. It just exploded from there.