Either there are very different people on Twitter than the average Jane Q. Everywoman, or we tend to say very different things in public than we do in private.
Pew Research took a long look at what Twitterati say about major social and political issues and compared it to what opinion polls say. The differences are significant.
"At times the Twitter conversation is more liberal than survey responses, while at other times it is more conservative," the research firm said when announcing the results.
