This article was written by Charnita Fance.

“A few days ago a friend of mine sent me a tweet asking if I knew a way that he could find out tweet frequency and history. He had apparently been hit by the “inflated tweet count” issue that has been going around for awhile now (as you can see by the 101 pages of comments on the Twitter blog regarding the issue). Though I didn’t know a site off hand, I know that I have come across quite a few in the past and figured that these would surely come in handy for others as well. If you know of any others, please feel free to add them in the comments section.”

Read the rest of this article from Blogging Tips.

“We just published our third annual Social Technographics Profile in a document called “The Broad Reach of Social Technologies” . The author is Sean Corcoran, with help from out data expert Cynthia Pflaum. The data across North America, Europe, and Asia is now available.

Starting with the book “Groundswell” and continuing now for three years running, we’ve analyzed consumers’ participation in social technologies around the world with a tool called the “Social Technographics Profile.” The profile puts online people into overlapping groups based on their participation (at least once a month) in the behaviors shown in the ladder. We’ve kept the ladder categories consistent to allow us to make comparisons year-to-year, across ages and genders, and across geographies. This provides something that’s often sorely lacking in analysis of online social phenomena: perspective.”

Read this article from Forrester.

“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.