Today MySpace officially launched a way or its users to update their Twitter status updates directly from MySpace. It looks like MySpace beat Facebook to this feature. Then again, Facebook probably doesn’t want to bow to Twitter just yet (even after copying Twitters status stream feature).

So this is yet another twitter application done by another company/website. One thing is interesting however is the fact that now the question will arise. Will teens join in the twitter phenomenon?

During the summer of 2009 there were many artices, blog posts and studies on how tween are not adopting the use of Twitter therefore from an advertising and marketing standpoint Twitter was unique with other social networking sites that have exploded over the past few years.

If we take a look at the statistics from the research firm Pew Internet we can see:

• 19% of online adults age 18-24 have used twitter or something like it
• 20% of online adults age 25-34 have used twitter or something like it
• 10% of online adults age 35-44 “    “     “    “
• 5% of online adults age 45-54  “    “    “   “
• 4% of online adults age 55-64  “    “    “   “
• 2% of online adults 65+

source: sociamediatoday.com blog post

So the majority of the users are 25-44.

My thought has always been that due to the fact that many teens and youth are just beginning to purchase “smart phones” and typically they share the monthly bill with their parents (or are just included with their parents bill) not all teens have mostly low minutes and an unlimited texting plan with limited ‘data access’.

Now with MySpace which has the largest youth demographic of all social networks exposes the Twitter status updates to teens, it will only be a matter of a few short months before the younger demographic for twitter will explode.

Your thoughts?

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