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- One key area of news people rely on Twitter for is breaking news. Fully 70% of Twitter news consumers say they have used Twitter to follow live news events, up from 59% who said this in 2015.
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Nov 15, 2021 · Just 8% of Twitter users who get news on the site say it is the most important way they get news, while an additional 59% say it is important but not paramount. One key area of news people rely on Twitter for is breaking news.
- Sara Atske
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
- Newsrooms Go Social
- Twitter Becomes The News?
- Productive Usage
Social media has transformed newsrooms, speeding up newsgathering and enabling recourse to wider ranges of sources and material. The corollary of the ubiquity of Twitter is that journalist’s roles have changed significantly. Twitter never sleeps and neither does the modern journalist, who is scanning updates 24/7, posting and retweeting. This is of...
There are those who suggest that Twitter has had a trivialising effect on journalism. That it is lazy and convenient for journalists to rely on Twitter “outrages” for news. A quick look the newspapers in the last few weeks gives some credence to that view. A the Twitter “spat” between Lord Sugar and Nick Clegg made it into The Guardian’s politics s...
There are numerous examples of this sort of productive use of social media. Perhaps most famously, Twitter was successfully used in the Arab Spring of 2011 to mobilise support for change both locally and internationally. Closer to home, it could be argued that in the early days of the phone hacking scandal it was the campaign on Twitter urging adve...
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.
Dec 12, 2023 · “Twitter helps you share and discover what’s happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about,” he wrote. In short, Twitter was for the news.
- Nilay Patel
Apr 27, 2022 · Key points: There are 5.8 million active monthly Twitter users in Australia. Twitter is the eighth most popular social media platform. But only 2.6% of 16 to 64-year-olds consider Twitter to be their favourite platform. A lecturer in Digital Media Research at Monash University, Dr Verity Trott, said Twitter was "generally still pretty insular".
Mar 21, 2021 · Many say this altered the media landscape for good as Twitter emerged as a new outlet for the near-instantaneous sharing of breaking news.
