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This is classic linkbait. Flamebait headline for the audience of the website it's posted on, with content comprised of anecdotes and cherrypicked statistics.

Flag it with me please.

>And take a look at four of the new “horsemen” of the consumer web—Facebook, Zynga, Groupon and Twitter. This may surprise you, the majority of all four properties’ users are female. Make that “horsewomen”.

May be that implicit targeting of women explains why i'm not on any of the sites. I honestly even tried once to register on Twitter, yet just couldn't make myself to do it on that page with a birdie and swirls.

ROFLOL -- but only because I don't really get it either and I'm female. (More proof I'm weird, I guess.) I have a facebook account. I almost never log in to it. (I log in so rarely that sometimes when I try, I can't remember the password.) I just don't get it. I have never registered for twitter. I really have no idea what zynga is.

Zynga is the publisher of Farmville, the world's second biggest social-network-centered farming game.

Why does stuff like this get on the front page, or do TC articles get special treatment or something?

More accurate headline: "Women Use the Internet"

Sad face emoticon.

Why Women Rule The Internet