According to the latest research on mobile shopping from Pew, more than half of adult cell phone owners used their cell phones while they were in a store to get help with a purchase decision during the 2011 holiday season. Read →
65% of online adults now use social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, up from 61% one year ago, according to the latest report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And, for the first time, it means that half of all adults (50%) use social networking sites. Read →
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has released the first-ever report that exclusively examines Twitter users. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews of U.S. adults conducted from November 3-24, 2010. According to the report, 8% of American adult internet users are Twitter users, and 2% say [...] Read →
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life project has released its first report on location-based services, based on August and September, 2010 interviews with 3,001 online adults. According to the report, 24% of all online adults now use a status update service such as Twitter, up from 6% in 2008. Of those status update [...] Read →
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has release a new report that shows remarkable growth in social networking use among older U.S. adults. The report is primarily based on data from telephone interviews April 29 and May 30, 2010, among a sample of 2,252 adults, age 18 and older. According to the [...] Read →
35% of US adults now have social network profiles, up from 8% in 2005. That’s still a smaller proportion that the 65% of teens — but a larger number overall. The just-released the results of the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s December 2008 tracking survey shows that the use of social media still skews [...] Read →
