The Bieberization of Twitter

I don't know a lot about Justin Bieber. No more than Barbara Walters. But when you're trending on Twitter more than Wikileaks, you're doing something right. Or very wrong.

Most of us don't have that problem because less than 1 in 10 of us adults use Twitter. Not the same for college kids, though. As the Chronicle of Higher reports:

College students are far more likely to use Twitter than are other segments of the U.S. population: While 8 percent of American adults who go online use the short-burst messaging service, the proportion for full-time or part-time college students who go online is 18 percent.

Let's get things straight. There are about 95 million tweets every day, a growing majority of which are coming the 21-and-under crowd. Twenty percent of them use Twitter frequently. We know they don't use email. And despite Facebook's domination of the world, they're not likely to use it's new messaging service, either.

Which makes me wonder what that leaves for people like me.