Twitter, Internet increasingly popular for blacks

Published January 6, 2014 10:16pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — Young, college-educated and higher-income African Americans are just as likely as their white counterparts to use the Internet, and Twitter seems to be a favorite place in cyberspace, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.

The report, released Monday, showed that about 72 percent of African Americans have either home broadband connection or a smartphone, or both. About 86 percent of black Internet users ages 18 to 29 have broadband access at home, about 88 percent are college graduates and about 91 percent earn at least $75,000 annually, Pew researchers said.

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