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Yes, exactly, thank you. I am so sick of this story already. There's only one line you need to take away from the article: "Morgan Stanley makes no claims for the report's statistical vigour."

"Teenagers don't use twitter" is not even close to being true. It's more like, "One teenager and his friends don't use twitter", a classic case of biased sampling. To then jump to the conclusions - NO teenagers use twitter, ALL teenagers prefer text messaging - is not only idiotic, but demonstrably false.



Some data seems to back up the kid's claim (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/nielsen_twitter_was_fas...), which is not to say he arrived at his conclusion in an scientific way.




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