67417 external_news 1308310495 1475893481 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.

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