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Source: The Guardian

Nov 03, 2009

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Social media remain healthy - 45m status updates a day are posted by Facebook users, whose average age has risen to 33

The use of social media is still growing: a survey has revealed that 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves or see updates about others.

This is a significant increase of 8% - in previous surveys from April 2009 and December 2008 the figure was just 11%. Furthermore the report, based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research International of 2,253 adults, matches the expectations of companies such as Twitter and Facebook.

According to internal documents leaked earlier this year, Twitter expects to have 25 million active users by the end of 2009, rising to 100 million by the end of 2010 - and thanks to a lot of media exposure and an army of high-profile celebrity users, this might be possible, as Twitter is looking less and less like a short-lived fad. Facebook, on the other hand, already has according to its own figures 300 million active users, produc

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