[nir]

These type of articles seem to come from a basic assumption that non-teens do tweet.

There's a gap between both MSM and the blogosphere and reality here. The blogosphere is attracted to Twitter since it likes new technology and constant self promotion. MSM is like the parents of a teen, trying to relate to their world and hanging to some band name etc they picked up.

In reality, Twitter plays a much smaller part in people's lives than it does in ReadWriteWeb or CNN.

[joshfinnie]

This is a very true statement. My geek friends and I tweet all the time, but I was trying to get my girlfriend to sign up and she outright refuses. It is easier as geeks here to see the benefits of services like Twitter, but in the real world (and also in the teen world) it just isn't that important.