BY:CHRISTINA SMITH
Despite the fact that Twitter is used to connect to friends, family, and celebrity sources, it seems like the Twitter platform has slowly changed its purpose. Is Twitter the new newspaper? This was a conversation I had with a friend the other day and we both agreed that we go to twitter for the news, whether its for celebrity, political, environmental, or anything else in between. There was a comprehensive study of a total of 4,713 twitter and social media users done by the American Press Institute about the news and twitter. These were the results.
- Nearly 9 in 10 Twitter users in the study (86%) say they use Twitter for news, and the vast majority of those (74%) do so daily.
- Roughly the same number of people say they use Twitter to be alerted to breaking news (40%) as to keep up with the news generally (39%).
- Three quarters of Twitter news users follow individual journalists, writers and commentators (73%) and nearly two thirds follow institutional accounts (62%). Twitter users also are very likely to discover new journalists and writers and consequently follow their work, often on other platforms beyond Twitter.
- Fully 94% of Twitter news users get their news either through scrolling their timelines or browsing tweets of those they follow. Other features are used far less often: For instance just 34% of Twitter news users say they get news from trending topics and 30% use search.
- 82% of Twitter users access the platform on their phones and many access Twitter across multiple devices.
- A majority of non-Twitter users (51%) have seen tweets. 45% on TV, 33% from friends, 27% in news articles they read, 22% from going to twitter.com without signing up, 12% from search and 8% in a newspaper.
Sources:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-wexler/twitter-is-the-21st-centu_b_4774976.html
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