(CNN) -- With all the Facebook news lately -- the flat IPO, the regulatory interest, the Chan-Zuckerberg wedding -- it's highly possibly you've forgotten all about Twitter. If so, you'd be like most Americans. Only 8% of online Americans check their Twitter feeds on an average day, according to survey results released Thursday by the Pew Center for Internet & American Life. That's up from 2% in November 2010 and 5% in August, the group says, but it's nowhere near the numbers Pew tallies when it asks about online social networks in general. In February, the group asked Americans if they "use social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn or Google Plus." Sixty-six percent said yes.
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Pew survey finds 8% of American Internet users go on Twitter daily
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Forbes writer says Twitter "might be in a bit of a lull"
Some tech pundits argue Facebook and Twitter serve very different purposes -- with Twitter becoming more of a news feed and @placeholder becoming an online hub for friendships.