16% isn’t much, but its doubled in 2yrs. #foodforthought
It is funny that a platform that was thought to be too public for teens is starting to get some attention from the 12-17 yr old demographic because it has more anonymity than Facebook. In this article, data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows how privacy just might be the tipping point that gets more teens to tweet.
They can use usernames that are not their real name, they can be selective about who they follow (and vice versa) and can protect their tweets. Plus their mom is on Facebook now (thumbs down) and Ashton Kutcher is on Twitter (thumbs up). Self-expression + privacy + a backstage pass = twitter experience.
Or Twitter, which is high school but only 140 characters at a time.
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Seth’s Blog: The Rule of High School
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Great reminder from Godin that there is no silver bullet…
“As in high school, the winners are the ones who don’t take it too seriously and understand what they’re trying to accomplish. Get stuck in the never ending drama (worrying about what irrelevant people think) and you’ll never get anything done. The only thing worse than coming in second place in the race for student council president is… winning.”
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The best part? I am just as annoyed by those type of tweets as I would be about that type of phone call. Maybe that should be our filter… if it wouldn’t be worth a phone call, it isn’t cool enough to tweet about…
Just a thought.
Some of the recent findings from The Science of ReTweets Report by Dan Zarrella. (Summary via Fast Company)
The 9 things to do to get ReTweeted include:
- Link Up (But Don’t Use TinyURLs)
- Beggars Can Be Choosers (see photo above regarding “please” and “retweet”)
- 3. Avoid Idle Chit-Chat
- Don’t Be Stupid (no abbrevs and emoticons please)
- Semicolons = Satan (punctuation is good, as long as it is not the semicolon)
- Break News
- Use Proper Nouns Properly
- Bottle Those Emotions (“nobody wants to promote your f—-ing, stupid feelings”)
- Tweet at 4 p.m. on Friday
