chirrup traffic is up 700 percentage over last year , and it ’s all thanks to the old - timers . That ’s according to the latestnumbers from ComScore , which sound out Twitter drew almost 10 million visitor worldwide in February 2009 . In the past two months alone , Twitter traffic has grown by 5 million world-wide visitors , while U.S. Twitter traffic accounted for 4 million visitors in February 2009 — a 1000 percent leap over last class .

What storm the folks at ComScore was that the intermediate age for Tweeters was in the 25- to 54 - year - old range , with the over-45 arrange stealing the bulk of the user Proto-Indo European . ComScore state people senesce 45 - 54 are 36 pct more likely to use Twitter than the quietus of us , while those aged 25 - 34 are 30 per centum more likely . lawful to their slacker upbringing , Generation Xers aged 35 - 44 come in third and are only 9 per centum more probable to employ Twitter than everyone else .

The numbers are not that surprising when you consider that manybusinesses are turning toward Twitterfor public relation , brand direction andeven customer service . Add to that the non - stop parade of “ Internet entrepreneurs ” and self - appoint “ social medium gospeller ” and ComScore ’s results take up to make more gumption .

ComScore blogger Sarah Radwanick tell the latest Twitter resultant role also repoint to the senescence of the first contemporaries of cyberspace users . As these exploiter grow up , they remain just as funny about emerging engineering science and services . This means the conception of the technologically inclined “ early adopter ” as a new , predominately male demographic may have to be revisit .

Taking that one step further , perhaps as generations who grew up have it off some form of calculator — be it an Apple II , Commodore 64 , IBM compatible or Windows XP auto — spread across all age orbit , a person ’s years may not be a big broker when looking at future technology at all . The The Pew Internet and American Life Project in February released alike results to ComScore ’s , which said themedian age of Twitter userswas 31 .

One affair ’s for certain : Twitter ’s increase show no signs of slowing with everyone from passing users to celebrities jumping into the Twittosphere . ComScore ’s official numbers for March are due out later this week , and Radwanick says it ’s going to be another huge month for the microblogging table service .