This week, Forrester released the 'new and improved' Social Technographics. Over two years ago we introduced Social Technographics, a way to analyze your market's social technology behavior. In these years we've seen that with the rapid pace of technology adoption, the rungs on the ladder have shown steady growth, with some (like Joiners) growing faster than others (like Creators). In these years we have helped clients understand the social media uptake of their customers with data for 13 countries, and for various segments and brands. But, in the past year we did feel we missed out on something: Twitter.

As you can see from the graphic, we added a new rung, “Conversationalists”. Conversationalists reflects two changes. First, it includes people who update their social network status to converse (both in Facebook as twitter). And second, we include only people who update at least weekly, since anything less than this isn't much of a conversation.

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Conversationalists are 56% female, more than any other group in the ladder. While they're among the youngest of the groups, 70% are still 30 and up. Other results from our latest survey shows that  the trends from the last two years continues — Spectators are maxing out at around 70%, Joiners are still growing rapidly, and Creators are still growing slowly.