Facebook Is The #1 Social Site For News Traffic: Pew

While Facebook has made a push in the past year to engage more journalists, the social network lags behind Google and other platforms as a significant driver of traffic to news media sites.

While Facebook has made a push in the past year to engage more journalists, the social network lags behind Google and other platforms as a significant driver of traffic to news media sites.

In fact, only nine percent of U.S. adults get their news from Facebook and Twitter, although of that group, Facebook is used most frequently as a source of news.

That’s according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s State of the News Media 2012 report.

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