Just 9% Of U.S. Adults Get Their News Via Twitter Or Facebook [STUDY]

With well over a billion users between them, Facebook and Twitter dominate the world of social media, and have quickly established themselves as an increasingly pivotal cog in the world of news distribution.

But according to a new report from the Pew Research Center, that cog might not be as substantial as we perhaps suspected, as Pew’s study has revealed that just 9 percent of U.S. adults receive news updates on a frequent basis via these channels.

Pew’s data comes via its 2012 State Of The News Media report, which polled a nationally representative sample of over three thousand adults in the United States.

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