Fully 71% of online Americans use video-sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo. Rural internet users have caught up to others in their use of these sites, and minorities are more likely than whites to visit them.
13% of online adults use Twitter, and half of Twitter users access the service “on the go” via mobile phone.
4% of online adults use a location-based service such as Foursquare or Gowalla that allows them to share their location with friends and to find others who are nearby.
Aaron Smith will speak at CAPAF’s Internet Advocacy Roundtable to discuss how to best use social media to engage and mobilize diverse constituencies.
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For a host of reasons, the new administration needs to develop a national broadband strategy but research suggests that users must be central actors in its design.
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