Comments on: Teens Don’t Tweet http://33charts.com/2009/07/teens-dont-tweet.html medicine. health. (social) media. Thu, 03 May 2012 14:28:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dr. Gwenn http://33charts.com/2009/07/teens-dont-tweet.html#comment-564 Dr. Gwenn Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:25:34 +0000 http://02d880f.netsolhost.com/2009/07/teens-dont-tweet.html#comment-564 <p>Great post! The Morgan Stanley intern's perception is 100% accurate and the only teens I've seen on Twitter are the ones who have a budding business or are authors put on their by their publicist, with their parent's consent.</p> <p>Having a very social teen at home who is a queen bee in social networking, and chatting with her friends, I've come to the conclusion that Twitter is just not a platform that allows teens to communicate they way they actually communicate. It really has little to do with development. </p> <p>What I've learned is this:</p> <p>1. They don't want to be limited to 140 characters.<br /> 2. They don't want their tweets read by adults they don't know and don't want to know.<br /> 3. They "find it pointless". I was told "why do you want to talk to all those people like that?"<br /> 4. They want to connect me to friend, not me to world.</p> <p>Teens think about their immediate needs and immediate need to communicate. It may really be that simple. </p> Great post! The Morgan Stanley intern's perception is 100% accurate and the only teens I've seen on Twitter are the ones who have a budding business or are authors put on their by their publicist, with their parent's consent.

Having a very social teen at home who is a queen bee in social networking, and chatting with her friends, I've come to the conclusion that Twitter is just not a platform that allows teens to communicate they way they actually communicate. It really has little to do with development.

What I've learned is this:

1. They don't want to be limited to 140 characters.
2. They don't want their tweets read by adults they don't know and don't want to know.
3. They "find it pointless". I was told "why do you want to talk to all those people like that?"
4. They want to connect me to friend, not me to world.

Teens think about their immediate needs and immediate need to communicate. It may really be that simple.

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