Irish use of Twitter on the slide, figures show

64 per cent of adults have a Facebook account

Little movement in social media figures, apart from Twitter. Pic: Getty

Figures which track social media usage in Ireland show a drop in the percentage of people with Twitter accounts in the three months from April to July.

The July Social Networking Tracker, compiled by Ipsos MRBI, showed that 26 per cent of adultshad Twitter accounts, down from 29 per cent in April. There was little change in the figures for the other main platforms, with Facebook unchanged at 64 per cent and Google+ ...