Is seems counterintuitive but, young people are not automatically attracted to Twitter. The average age of a Twitter user is 31. This statistic may be changing with time, but Twitter appears to be an example of an Internet application that skipped a generation and was adopted first by an older group.

They think it's pointless, narcissistic. Some don't even know what it is.

Even so, more young adults and teens - normally at the cutting edge of technology - are finally coming around to Twitter, using it for class or work, monitoring the minutiae of celebrities' lives.

It's not always love at first tweet, though. Many of them are doing it grudgingly, perhaps because a friend pressures them or a teacher or boss makes them try the 140-character microblogging site.

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The trend is clear - mobile communication is growing at an astronomical rate, with no end in sight. Contributing greatly to the adoption of mobile technology is Twitter. Twitter use is up 3500% in the first half of 2009! Twitter status-updates offer uniquely compelling properties for social media raconteurs.

Microblogging site Twitter is having a positive effect on the number of consumers using their mobile phone to access the web, says research firm Novarra. Research by the internet mobility company revealed that page views of Twitter from handsets increased by 3500 percent in the first half of 2009. Novarra also said that page views of URTL shortening services bit.ly and tinyurl.com grew by 1,068 percent this year.

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While it might seem hard to believe, the 'mobil revolution' promises to be faster and more wide spread than the general internet explosion of the last decade. As cell phones morph into "smart" phones and ultimately into hand held computers in the next few years, more and more people will be logging on to the internet with mobile data devices. The trend lines predict that by 2015j more people will access the web via mobile devices than from desktops.

"We believe Facebook has the potential to serve as a communications platform/engine of one-to-one, one-to-some and one-to-many (and visa versa) for the mobile Internet," Morgan Stanley says. "Facebook has already become a primary way for millions of people to stay connected and Facebook's lead is likely to be extended as more consumers use increasingly powerful mobile devices (with photo/video + high-speed access) and the communications options on Facebook (like voice/video chat and other services) continue to rise."

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