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  1. Nov 15, 2021 · Overall, 23% of Americans use Twitter, and roughly seven-in-ten U.S. Twitter users (69%) say they get news on the site, according to a new Pew Research Center study that surveyed 2,548 Twitter users from May 17 to 31, 2021.

  2. Nov 15, 2021 · When it comes to breaking news, Twitter is a common source for many of its news consumers. Seven-in-ten Twitter news consumers say they have used Twitter to follow live news events, compared with about three-in-ten (29%) who have not.

    • Sara Atske
  3. Sep 20, 2021 · Twitter and Instagram are regular news sources for 13% and 11% of Americans, respectively. Other social media sites are less likely to be regular news sources. Fewer than one-in-ten Americans say they regularly get news from Reddit (7%), TikTok (6%), LinkedIn (4%), Snapchat (4%), WhatsApp (3%) and Twitch (1%).

    • Sara Atske
  4. Oct 25, 2023 · As an indication of Twitter’s tendency to expose people to more news, a simple breakdown of our data shows how a higher proportion of Twitter users (28% of them) accessed seven or more online news sources in the last week, compared to users of other platforms, those who don’t use social media, and the total sample in general.

  5. Sep 1, 2015 · Roughly the same number of people say they use Twitter to be alerted to breaking news (40%) as to keep up with the news generally (39%). Three quarters of Twitter news users follow individual journalists, writers and commentators (73%) and nearly two thirds follow institutional accounts (62%).

  6. Liberal Democrats make up 42% of Twitter news consumers, compared with 28% of other users, and 77% of members of this group were under 50, while 46% had at least a bachelor’s degree.

  7. Nov 19, 2021 · Fully 70 percent of Twitter news consumers say they have used Twitter to follow live news events, a significant increase from 59 percent who said this in 2015, according to Pew. Twitter news consumers have generally positive opinions of the accuracy and amount of news they see on the site.