Report: Twitter is Growing as a Real-Time News Platform

The report notes that 86 percent of those who use Twitter do so to get the news; many find the service valuable for keeping up with breaking news and events in real-time.

Social media has become the way people get news nowadays. The digital and mobile revolutions have lead people away from print content consumption to getting most of their news through their social networks. Twitter has specifically been instrumental in spreading and shaping news about events and social unrest both near and far.

Understanding this relationship between Twitter and the news is precisely why the American Press Institute and Twitter teamed up and commissioned research from DB5.

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