When teens text, they are transmitting secrets. "I like billy. Will you ask him if he likes me?" If they weren't secrets, they would twitter them, put them o

When teens text, they are transmitting secrets. "I like billy. Will you ask him if he likes me?" If they weren't secrets, they would twitter them, put them on myspace or facebook, etc. When adults tweet, they are making public statements. That is why twitter is not popular with teens: they already make public statements on facebook/myspace, they don't mind the clutter there, and they have no interest in another platform to make public statements. In time, teens may begin to make their public statements on twitter, because network communities are intensely fashion driven, but as twitter is content oriented - and teens are lite on good content - I doubt it will be as popular for them. Teens like flare. If twitter had more flare, teens might like it more. But the rest of us would not.