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Only 8% of US adults use Twitter for news

on Mar 30, 2014 | 0 comments

By Jennifer Faull

More people use Facebook to keep up to date with news than they do Twitter or YouTube.

According to a new study from Pew Research, 30 per cent of American adults who use Facebook do so to keep up to date with news.

However, only eight per cent of the overall user base on Twitter use it for news.

The figure for YouTube was a fraction higher, with 10 per cent of those on the platform using it to get news.

In Pew’s wider ‘State of News Media 2014′ report it also looked at how news is shared on Read full story ›

Source: The Drum