So Twitter is full of thirty somethings and Facebook is being rapidly adopted by the over fifties according to some recent articles. This makes sense i’ve been hearing lots of stories of parents making friends with their offspring  – not least as its the only way they can find out what they’re up to.

The Guardian (UK) pulls out a bunch of stats on Twitter adoption which i think is likely to play out in South Africa too:

• In April, web metrics firm comScore reported that the majority of Twitter’s 10m or so users were over 35.
• In June, comScore reported that 11.3% of visitors to Twitter.com in the U.S. are ages 12-17. Internationally, only 4.4% of visitors were younger then 18, according to comScore data from May.
• In June, Pace University said that while 99% of 18-24 year olds have profiles on social networks, only 22% use Twitter.