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Teens on Social Networks: Facebook Wins, But Twitter Is Narrowing the Gap

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A recent Piper Jaffray survey of American teens revealed that Facebook is still the most popular social network among this age group – but Twitter is following close behind. Twitter was first choice for 2,118. As third choice, Google+ beat out Twitter, but was still behind Facebook and Instagram. What do you think?

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Twitter Users Are 68% More Likely To Visit Political Campaign Donation Sites

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Twitter wants politicians to know that their tweets are effective. A new study from Twitter and Compete set out to answer these questions. According to Compete’s data, the average Twitter user is 68% more likely to visit a campaign donation page than the average internet user. political retweets by users they follow.

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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Nears Deal With Stripe, Spotify Drops Free Listening Time Limit

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Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Spotify: Facebook’s new Trending section.

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PeopleBrowsr v. Twitter: The Arguments On Each Side — And What’s At Stake

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Yesterday, a San Francisco court gave PeopleBrowsr, an provider of Twitter analytics services, a temporary restraining order against Twitter. The court ruling forces Twitter to maintains PeopleBrowsr’s full access to Twitter’s firehose of data. Do you think that fits the state of the Twitter developer market?).

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Social Networking Stats: 25% of US Smartphone Users Will Use Instagram in 2014, #RLTM Scoreboard

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Twitter: 241 million monthly active users. Instagram use is now nearly as high as Twitter’s, according to new data from eMarketer , especially among millennials and Gen Xers. million US consumers used Twitter monthly last year, or 17.6% will use Twitter. The #RLTM Scoreboard: Social Networking Stats for the Week.

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Working From Home Is Adding to Loneliness

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The rise of working from home is adding to loneliness with more than three million people who do this claiming it means they don’t see other people very often, new research* from digital board game group Marmalade Game Studio shows. Follow on Twitter ( @MarmaladeGames ), Facebook ( @MarmaladeGameStudio ), and Instagram ( @MarmaladeGames ).

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Social Networking Stats: Tumblr Draws Youngest Users Among Top 10 Social Platforms, #RLTM Scoreboard

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Twitter: 255 million monthly active users. Instagram and YouTube also have a fairly young user base; the greatest share of users for both social networks come from the 16-24 age group, according to recent data from GlobalWebIndex. The #RLTM Scoreboard: Social Networking Stats for the Week. Facebook: 1.23 billion monthly active users.

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