51009 news 1265751567 1475895863 2009-08-27T00:00:00-04:00 Twitter's unparalleled explosion in popularity is bucking the old model of young people and teenagers as the earliest adopters of Web-related innovations. Part of this may be due to "tweets" being a "comparatively adult kind of interaction," says new Interactive Computing Ph.D. graduate Andrea Forte, whose Georgia Tech dissertation examined how high school students use social media. Source: The New York Times

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