Being a self-proclaimed social media junkie, twitter is a natural part of my life now. In fact, many of the people I work with and surround myself with now probably feel the same way. We use twitter all day, everyday, and in so many different ways. We might not think of it too often, but there aren’t as many of us as we might suspect.

I’ll give two examples of why I believe this. A few weeks ago, on the opening day of SOBCon actually, I gave a speech on social networking at the Illinois Institute for Entrepreneurship Education Young Entrepreneurs Conference. I’d say roughly 95% of the students I spoke to (probably 50 total) weren’t using twitter, and probably 99% didn’t really know what it was or how to really use it. That was compared to about 95% of them that use MySpace. Takeaway:

Twitter hasn’t completely caught on with the generation that you might expect would be using it. More >