Twitter

A report has just been released by the Pew Research Centre in the US, detailing research into the profile of US users of the increasingly popular microblogging service Twitter.

Interestingly, according to the report, Twitter users are not as young as you might have expected - with a median age of 31. Compared to 27 for MySpace users; 26 for Facebook users; and a positively ancient 40 for LinkedIn users.

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Tomorrow is Twestival Day, a world-wide fundraising festival made possible by Twitter.

It's good to see a few more sector bodies starting to use Twitter, or at least start experimenting with it.

So, a friendly welcome to the world of Twitter to:

I must admit that when I first trialled the microblogging service Twitter a couple of years back, it was at a time when new Web 2.0 things were appearing so fast that unless an initial bit of play revealed an application for them beyond technical interest or geeky chic then I let them pass - and so it was for me with Twitter.

However, over the last year I've seen more and more examples of Twitter being used by nonprofits - and I even got twittered myself (not sure that's the correct term) when speaking at the IFC over in Holland earlier this year. So I was wondering, perhaps it is time for those fundraisers who have to-date left the tweets to the early adopters with time on their hands to take twitter seriously as a potential addition to their digital toolkit?

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Around 30 people from the charity sector or with an interest in it gathered above a Soho bar in London for the UK's first tweetup for the charity sector.

Micro-blogging tool Twitter does seem to be social media tool of the moment, or at least the shiniest new gadget that lots of people are discovering.

If you wanted to keep up to the minute with news from the Institute of Fundraising's National Convention in London earlier this week you could have done so by following tweets.