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# Can Twitter Grow Your Fanbase? Study Shows Just 8% Of U.S. Adults Use It Daily
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/can-twitter-help-grow-your-fanbase-study-shows-just-8-of-us-adults-use-it-daily/
- Published: 2012-06-07T14:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2012-06-07T14:30:00.000Z
- Description: Amanda Palmer's 550,000 Twitter followers just help her raise $1.2 million on Kickstarter. But Twitter works better for some artists than it does for others. Part of the answer why. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/06/can-twitter-help-grow-your-fanbase-study-shows-just-8-of-us
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:49

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Amanda Palmer's 550,000 Twitter followers just help her raise $1.2 million on Kickstarter. But Twitter works better for some artists than it does for others. Part of the answer why is how each artist uses Twitter. But a new study shows that for others, the reason that Twitter works or doesn't may be that their fans simply don't participate in the 140 character social network.

A new [Pew Internet](http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Twitter-Use-2012.aspx?ref=hypebot.com) survey showed that as of February 2012, 15% of online adults use Twitter, with just 8% doing so on their typical day. Overall Twitter adoption remains steady, as the 15% of online adults who use Twitter is similar to the 13% of such adults who did so in May 2011.

But there is hope for the future. The proportion of online adults who use Twitter on a typical day has doubled since May 2011 and has quadrupled since late 2010\. At that point just 2% of online adults used Twitter on a typical day. The rise of smartphones may account for some of the uptick in usage since smartphone users are particularly likely to be using Twitter, says Pew.