A new report out confirms that Teens don’t tweet. The study from Nielson suggested that only 16% of US teens tweeted.

To quote the Mashable article,

More precisely, Nielsen has compiled data from its NetRatings panel of 250,000 US Internet users and discovered that there are fewer young people on Twitter () than on the Internet as a whole: one quarter of US Internet users are under 25, Nielsen says, but only 16% of Twitter users lie in that age range. While Nielsen is only measuring people who visit Twitter.com (not desktop and mobile clients), the analytics firm additionally claims that over 90% of TweetDeck () users are over 25, making it unlikely that there are masses of uncounted young people on third-party Twitter apps.

The Onion, always ready with an opinion, took a street survey to see what others think..

As I am not a teen, I tweet a lot. www.twitter.com/jamieriddell

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