Poll: Obama's tops among tweeters

President Barack Obama’s approval rating is sky high — among Twitter users, a new poll shows. Among self-identified users of the 140-character social media network, Obama’s approval rating is 69 percent, about 25 percentage points higher than his national approval rating among all voters, the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows.

Twitter users tend to lean more to the left: 13 percent of liberal Democrats say they use the tool, compared to 8 percent of conservatives and 6 percent of tea party supporters. Black adults are more Twitter-savvy than whites – 14 percent of African-Americans say they tweet, double the percentage of whites who are fluent in the 140-chracter messages, the poll found. But less than one out of 10 people currently participate in the world of Twitter — according to the survey, which asked which social networking services a person has used in the past two to three weeks, only 9 percent said they had used Twitter. Facebook was the most popular social networking tool by far, with 55 percent saying they had used the online forum in the last few weeks, including 79 percent of adults under the age 35. One out of 10 people, 10 percent, were users of LinkedIn, 3 percent were on MySpace, while 2 percent said they utilize Tumblr. According to analysis of the poll data, among Facebook users, Obama’s approval rating is 47 percent and 52 percent among LinedIn users.