Surprise: Americans Don't Use The Internet for News
Nielsen released a report on the social media habits of Americans today, and guess what? It reveals that people mostly use the Internet for Twitter, gaming, videos and the classifieds, not online news. According to Poynter, Americans spend almost 23 percent of their browsing time on social media, compared to just three percent on “global news and current events.”
While some of the categories are vague, and every report should be treated with a grain of salt, this doesn’t sound good for online news sites.
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