Gay people ‘more likely to join Facebook and Twitter’
Gay people are significantly more likely to be members of social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, research indicates.
Nearly three-quarters (73 per cent) of gay men and lesbians have a profile on Facebook, as against 65 per cent of heterosexuals, reports The Telegraph.
Homosexuals are almost twice as likely as straight people to have an account on Twitter, with 29 per cent claiming to use the micro-blogging website. The figure for straight people is just 15 per cent.
MySpace and Linkedin, the business contacts website, also have a disproportionate number of gay members, the research indicates.
Their survey of 2,400 Americans also found that gays are more likely to read blogs than their straight counterparts – 54 per cent compared to 40 per cent.
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Miley Cyrus deleted her Twitter account after abuse for tweeting that she supports gay marriage
Jam Showbiz reports that Miley Cyrus was bombarded with sickening hate mail after pledging her support for gay marriage last year.
She tells Parade magazine, “That’s the reason I deleted my Twitter account because I said on there that I believed in gay marriage because everyone should have the right to love each other, and I got such hate mail about my being a bad person.”
Vodafone Suspends Employee After Obscene Homophobic Tweet
With 8,824 followers, Vodafone UK’s Twitter account tweeted “VodafoneUK is fed up of dirty homo’s and is going after beaver.” After hundreds of people retweeted and replied to the tweet, Vodafone began apologizing to users individually, and then tweeted a public apology saying that the individual who had posted the tweet had been suspended.
