{"id":38976,"date":"2011-09-12T10:02:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=38976"},"modified":"2013-11-09T05:57:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T10:57:34","slug":"who-uses-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/09\/12\/who-uses-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Uses Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are few social facts that spread themselves out evenly across social class. Most everything — how healthy we are, what we do for leisure, how we dress, etc — is correlated with income. \u00a0Twitter, I learned today, is an exception. \u00a0 According to a Pew study<\/a>, internet users across a wide array of income brackets are using Twitter at about the same rate.<\/p>\n

Income and % of internet users who use Twitter:<\/p>\n

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When we look at variables that correlate with income, however, such as race and education, we see an un<\/em>even distribution.<\/p>\n

Race and % of internet users who use Twitter:<\/p>\n

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Education and % of internet users who use Twitter:<\/p>\n

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So people with more education are more <\/em>likely to use Twitter, but Whites (who, on average, get more education than Blacks and Hispanics) are less <\/em>likely. \u00a0There’s something really interesting going on here. \u00a0Any idea what?<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are few social facts that spread themselves out evenly across social class. Most everything — how healthy we are, what we do for leisure, how we dress, etc — is correlated with income. \u00a0Twitter, I learned today, is an exception. \u00a0 According to a Pew study, internet users across a wide array of income […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,34,778,285,1760,1754,1757,140],"class_list":["post-38976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-education","tag-intersectionality","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38976"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58697,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38976\/revisions\/58697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}