“It’s conventional wisdom that teenagers are early adopters of tech innovations, including Web-based social networks like Facebook and MySpace. But that apparently isn’t the case with micro-blogging site Twitter, which is largely shunned by the adolescent crowd.

According to a New York Times article, teens would much rather text than tweet. The piece quotes 18-year-old Kristen Nagy, a New Jersey teen who calls Twitter “weird,” and adds that she “doesn’t feel like everyone needs to know what I’m doing every second of my life.”

Just how uncool is Tweeting? According to ComScore, only 11 percent of Twitter users are aged 12 to 17, the Times reports.”

Read this article from PC World.