Journalists Prefer Twitter to Facebook, and Here's Why

Do you follow any of your favorite journalists on Facebook?

The ‘book made it pretty easy for journos to create a “community” by allowing people outside their friend list to follow them and check out the stuff they share. Twitter also only gets about 10% of the traffic, so wouldn’t it make sense for every aspiring journalist to use Facebook for self-promotion?

Not really—and Ezra Klein of The Washington Post explained why:

Twitter is simply more useful for our jobs. For better or worse, it’s where news breaks today.