Facebook & Twitter bloom as news platforms – tweets are still the best way to catch breaking stories
More and more Americans are using social networks such as Facebook and Twitter as their trusted source of news.
Research from Pew indicates that a spike in news consumption on the sites was not aided by a rise in user numbers – which on both platforms have remained steady – but a greater volume of stories hitting newsfeeds.
Comparable surveys featuring 2,035 adults conducted during March 2013 and March 2015 found that 63 per cent of Twitter users were using the site as a news source, up from 52 per cent in 2013.
Facebook on the other hand surged from 47 per cent Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
