Pew: Entertainment, Politics, Sports Dominated News-Related Tweets in US

The think tank studied behavior in 2021 versus a similar report in 2015

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Pew Research Center surveyed more than 500 adults in the U.S. to learn how they engage with news they see on Twitter and how those behaviors have changed since a similar study in 2015.

The think tank found that 83% of respondents tweeted about news at least once during the study’s 11-week run, but most did so on a relatively infrequent basis, with 55% tweeting about news between one and nine times during the period.

The three top subject areas, unchanged since the 2015 study, were entertainment, politics and sports.

Pew said the average U.S.

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