---
title: "Older Adults Tweeting"
description: "One-in-ten online adults ages 50-64 use Twitter or another status-updating service."
date: "2010-09-13"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2010/09/13/older-adults-tweeting/"
categories:
  - "Older Adults & Aging"
  - "Older Adults & Tech"
  - "Twitter (X)"
---

# Older Adults Tweeting

More and more older adults are learning to speak in 140-character tweets.One-in-ten (11%) online adults ages 50-64 and 5% of online adults ages 65 and older say they use Twitter or another status-updating service. A year ago, just 5% of internet-using adults ages 50-64 were among America’s tweeters.Young online adults are still the most likely to be on Twitter or a status-updating service; more than a quarter (27%) of internet users ages 18-29 tweet. Some older tweeters have plenty to share. Among internet users, 6% of adults ages 50-64 use Twitter or a status-updating service on a typical day, as do 3% of those ages 65 and older. By comparison, 18% of young adults use Twitter daily. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1711/older-adults-social-networking-facebook-twitter)