40% of Young Online African-Americans Use Twitter

The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has released a “demographic portrait” [pdf] of internet usage by African Americans, containing some very intriguing data. Among the interesting findings: the extent to which young African-American internet users have adopted Twitter. While a recent report from Pew highlighted the popularity of Twitter among African-Americans overall, this study goes a step further, examining usage by age. (more…)