Independent voters are most likely to have heard of Twitter, according to a new poll released Thursday, while there is little difference in party affiliation for users of the microblogging site.
A Hotline/Diageo poll released Thursday found that 62 percent of Independents have heard of Twitter, compared to 55 percent of Republicans and 53 percent of Democrats.
When it comes to actually using the site, though, four percent of all those surveyed said they use the site. Five percent of Democrats, four percent of Independents, and three percent of Republicans use Twitter.
Strong minorities in each category told pollsters they had never heard of or used Twitter, including 41 percent of Republicans, 42 percent of Democrats, and 34 percent of Independents.
The Hotline/Diageo poll, conducted Mar. 26-29, has a 3.5 percent margin of error.
The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza ("The Fix") may be tweeting a bit too much for his own good, judging by one post on his Twitter stream this morning.
Woke up in the middle of night with a great tweet. Fell asleep. Woke up this morning and can't remember it. This keeps happening.
Of course, Cillizza tweets with more gusto than most other journalists on the microblogging website. In addition to his eponymous "The Fix" twitter page, Cillizza also maintains "The Hyper Fix," in which he live-tweets White House press briefings and other major news events.
ABC's Rick Klein of "The Note" has a key question today for President Obama, who is traveling Europe on official business during the NCAA basketball tournament's final weekend.
Conservative pundit Michelle Malkin took it to 10 House Republicans who voted last night for a bill to curb executive compensation, with one of those lawmakers hitting back via Twitter.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow must be enjoying her trip down from New York (where her eponymous show usually tapes) to Washington, where she's got a series of high-profile interviews today.