Pingdom publishes demographics of social media sites

PanARMENIAN.Net - Performance monitoring service Pingdom has done another one of its mammoth social media studies: this one on the demographics of social media sites: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, Reddit, Hacker News, Slashdot, Github, Stack Overflow, Orkut, Quora, WordPress.com, Blogger, Flickr, Myspace, Tagged, Hi5, LiveJournal, Yelp, deviantART, StumbleUpon, Goodreads and Last.fm

Google+ was not included, as it's not directly monetized yet and does not appear in DoubleClick Ad Planner, the tool Pingdom uses to gather the data, VentureBeat reports.

There’s no huge surprise in the average age of social media users: more than half are between 25 and 44 years old, with only five percent under 17 and only two percent over 65.

It's noteworthy that 71 percent of the sites Pingdom checked were dominated by women.

The geek and propellerhead sites Slashdot, Hacker News, Stack Overflow, and Github buck this trend, being the sausagefests of the social networking world. Between 70 and 90 percent of their community is male. Quora and Orkut are also male-dominated, as is Reddit.

It’s no shock that Pinterest is female-dominated, with a 79 percent ratio. Reading social network Goodreads is also heavily female, and then there are a lot of other sites that are in the 50-60 percent range: Tumblr, Tagged, Yelp, and Flickr, according to VB.