This sounded... difficult to believe, so I thought I'd read the actual report on the Pew website.[0]
They seem to use "social media website" interchangeably with the actual apps in question, and their methodology writeup doesn't mention the actual questions they asked in their telephone surveys.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if more people used the Pinterest website more than the Twitter website, as the latter seems more oriented to being a website. It would appear that Twitter has way more users overall as compared to Pinterest though.
Pinterest: "50 million unique monthly users worldwide" [1]
Twitter: 117 million monthly active tweeting users [2]
So headline should technically be "Pinterest website passed Twitter website in popularity ..."
They seem to use "social media website" interchangeably with the actual apps in question, and their methodology writeup doesn't mention the actual questions they asked in their telephone surveys.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if more people used the Pinterest website more than the Twitter website, as the latter seems more oriented to being a website. It would appear that Twitter has way more users overall as compared to Pinterest though.
So headline should technically be "Pinterest website passed Twitter website in popularity ..."[0] http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Social-Media-Update/Main...
[1] http://allthingsd.com/20131023/pinterest-does-another-massiv...
[2] http://blog.peerreach.com/2013/11/4-ways-how-twitter-can-kee...