Last week Pew Internet released new data that showed who is using Twitter and other social media sites, with Twitter now enjoying an 18 percent penetration rate amongst internet users in the U.S., up from just 8 percent in 2010.

Perhaps most pleasing for Twitter was that the numbers also revealed that usage amongst all age demographics is also growing, with the 18-29, 30-49 and 50-64 age zones more than doubling in this same period.

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Pew Internet have updated their data that shows who is using Twitter and other social media sites. As we noted yesterday, 18 percent of online U.S. adults are now active on Twitter, up a full two percentage points from February of this year, and more than double Twitter’s total user base in November 2010.

But who are these people? According to Pew’s findings, the typical Twitter user is an 18-29 year-old educated minority with a well-paying job, and slightly more likely to be male than female.

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Almost three-quarters (72 percent) of online adults in the U.S. now use social media, suggests new data from Pew Internet.

This represents a significant rise from when Pew first carried out this research in February 2005, when just 8 percent of online adults were active in social channels.

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If you’re a reader of this blog you likely know that Twitter is really rather popular in the U.S., with recent estimates suggesting around 141.8 million total accounts in the States alone, about 27.4 percent of all Twitter users.

If you’re a regular reader, you probably know that Twitter is also popular in Japan and the United Kingdom. But where else is the micro-blogging social network growing like a weed?

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Twitter – it’s everywhere, isn’t it?

Well, maybe not, according to one study. Despite being widely known throughout France, with 89 percent of internet users aged 15 or over in the country aware of the micro-blogging social network, just 11 percent have, or once had, a Twitter profile.

Moreover, the survey, conducted by Ipsos and CGI back in March, revealed that only one in twenty (5 percent) of these users were actively engaged on Twitter, and most of these were simply reading (as opposed to posting) tweets.

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The number of Twitter users in the United Kingdom has more than doubled in the past two years, with a February 2013 poll from Kinetic Worldwide revealing that close to one third (28 percent) of all UK internet users are now active on the micro-blogging social platform, up from just over one in ten (13 percent) in February 2011.

Almost half (47 percent) of 18-24 year-old internet users maintain a Twitter profile in the UK, with 35-44 year-olds (33 percent) also well represented.

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Those good people at the Pew Research Centre recently updated their annual look at who is using social media, discovering that 16 percent of U.S. internet users are now active on Twitter, with the social micro-blogging network continuing to be popular with black and hispanic users, adults aged 18-29 and folks who live in urban areas.

But what about some of the other major social platforms? Aside from Twitter, who exactly is using Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr?

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Twitter was the world’s fastest-growing social platform in 2012, adding an incredible 40 percent more active users between Q2 and Q4 of last year.

Indeed, that same study suggested that Twitter now has a heady 288 million active profiles, with the micro-blogging network boasting a commanding presence in almost every major country around the globe.

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Twitter was born mobile. Back in July 2006 when co-founder Jack Dorsey first envisioned and launched the service, Twitter was known as “twttr”, a name inspired by both Flickr and the five-character length of U.S. SMS short codes, and the site made heavy emphasis on the use of sending messages via text.

Fast-forward to the heady days of 2013, and Twitter is, well, everywhere, and a huge part of that growth has been because of the micro-blogging social network’s continuing presence in the mobile space. Indeed, some 80 percent of the 10 million Twitter users in the United Kingdom now access the platform via their mobile device, and two-thirds (67 percent) of these mobile users follow brands on Twitter.

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Pew Internet have updated their annual look at who is using Twitter and other social media sites. You may recall that last year 15 percent of online adults were using everybody’s favourite micro-blogging social network, a small rise from 13 percent in 2011.

And in 2013? 16 percent of internet users are active on Twitter, and the service still skews favourably towards black and hispanic users, adults aged 18-29, and folks who live in urban areas.

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