Social Media Demographics: Who's Using Which Site?
Gender
Income
Age
Education
Male
Female
39%
61%
40%
60%
40%
60%
41%
59%
48%
52%
50%
50%
57%
43%
64%
36%
$0-24k
$25-49k
$50-74k
$75-99k
$100-149k
$150k
6%
39%
36%
11%
6%
2%
7%
26%
34%
18%
11%
4%
11%
19%
24%
21%
16%
9%
12%
36%
27%
14%
8%
3%
13%
31%
26%
16%
9%
5%
16%
26%
26%
19%
10%
3%
16%
32%
24%
17%
7%
4%
22%
26%
20%
19%
9%
5%
<18
18-24
25-34
35-44
45-54
55-64
65+
34%
8%
12%
16%
20%
6%
4%
17%
7%
14%
21%
25%
12%
4%
15%
9%
17%
25%
20%
11%
3%
10%
9%
19%
28%
19%
11%
4%
10%
9%
19%
28%
21%
10%
3%
9%
12%
21%
28%
17%
10%
3%
6%
14%
26%
27%
15%
9%
3%
3%
4%
16%
28%
28%
17%
4%
<High School
High School
Some University
Bachelor's Degree
Graduate Degree
32%
12%
43%
9%
4%
20%
14%
40%
17%
9%
17%
11%
49%
17%
6%
13%
10%
42%
26%
9%
11%
10%
49%
23%
7%
10%
8%
53%
22%
7%
9%
8%
43%
32%
8%
4%
10%
34%
38%
14%
Source
This is a response, using identical data, to .
Theirs' is pretty but scatters the data all over and makes patterns impossible to discern.
Observations
High age/education correlation, no surprise. Not many <18 y/o have graduate degrees.
Surprisingly high correlation across the board for several sites.
Myspace and Facebook are young, female and well-off.
Sites with an older population like StumbleUpon, Reddit and LinkedIn have more diverse incomes.
LinkedIn folks are the oldest and most well-off.
Twitter, Ning and Digg are middle of the pack.
I wonder about the reliability of the income figures from MySpace and Facebook, as its unclear whether the <18 crowd
is reporting their own or their parents' income.