American Millennials Increasingly Cruise Twitter For News

Where do you go for news? For break news, you likely check Twitter – who doesn’t? (Non Twitterers, yes, we know.)

But where do you go on a daily basis to see what’s what? Google News? Yahoo? A crinkly, oversized, ‘gonna give you a paper cut’ newspaper?

Yep, folks are staining their fingers on newspapers’ pages less and less – and particularly those under 30.

Poynter tells us that according to a study done recently by the Pew Research Center for the People & The Press, “for American adults under 30, social media has far surpassed newspapers and has equaled TV as a primary source of daily news.”

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