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Twitter: all the kids aren't doing it, but does it matter?
There may be a lot of hype about Twitter as the trendiest communication tool out there, but it turns out the service isn't as cool as people make it out to be. Why? Because kids aren't using it at nearly the same rate as older demographics. According to a recent Nielsen survey, only 16% of Twitter's users are under 25. To put that number in perspective, under-25's make up a quarter of the universe of Internet users. Nielsen asks an important question, though: does it really matter that kids don't get it? Despite being about 1/4 the size of Facebook, Twitter gets the same amount of "buzz" in online media. In June, 10% of all active Internet users visited Twitter.com. Are these numbers impressive enough to make up for the site's lack of youth appeal? Will Twitter catch on with the kids one day? These are questions the service has to deal with, going forward.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
