Twitter is…

…informative, interesting, newsworthy, user-friendly, uncomplicated, inspiring, fun, professional, social, influential, real-time, networking, marketing, mobile, private tweets, public tweets, retweets 

And Twitter is:

• 140 character tweets providing links to anything

• CNN Breaking News and The New York Times tweeting for over 5 million followers 

• Searching #hashtags for relevant feedback

• Immediate, non-invasive feedback from large audiences to live presenters

• Communication for virtual events

• A job search tool

• Companies engaging their customers

• Speakers engaging their audience

• Validated sites, sounds, info, news and more

• 100 million users

• over 600 tweets per second

• 30% over $100,000 in household income

• 45% over 18 yrs of age

• 24% over 35 yrs of age

• 14% over 50 yrs of age

Resources and further information: 

http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-twitter-statistics-facts-figures/

/aneliteresume/job-search/twitter-we-are-the-voice/

http://www.triveraguy.com/2010/07/twitter-new-media-or-news-media/