How Do Facebook, Twitter Users Consume News? (Report)

Roughly the same percentage of Facebook and Twitter users, 63 percent, view the respective social networks as news sources, but 59 percent of Twitter users follow breaking news, compared with just 31 percent for Facebook.

Roughly the same percentage of Facebook and Twitter users, 63 percent, view the respective social networks as news sources, but 59 percent of Twitter users follow breaking news on that platform, compared with just 31 percent for Facebook.

Pew Research Center and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation surveyed more than 2,000 U.S. adults for their new study, The Evolving Role of News on Twitter and Facebook, and their other findings included:

  • The 63 percent figure for both social networks was up considerably from 52 percent for Twitter and 47 percent for Facebook in 2013.
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