Pew Internet & American Life Project reported on Internet status update trending (see results here). They have shown a significant increase in Internet users updating status on some social networking site. In April of this year it was at 11%. Five months later results showed 19% of Inernet users updating status on a social networking site. That’s nearly 1/5 of the Internet population updating their status somewhere.

“Three groups of internet users are mainly responsible for driving the growth of this activity: social network website users, those who connect to the internet via mobile devices, and younger internet users”

In this study, 54% of Internet users have some type of wireless access to the Internet (via cell phone, wifi, etc.). Of those, 25% use Twitter or some other service up from 14% in December of 2008.

“Owning and using a wireless Internet device make an Internet user significantly more likely to tweet.”

When asking wireless Internet users why they value their mobile connections, 50% say to stay in touch with other people. (I read this as status updates.) 

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