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Nov 15, 2021 · News plays a prominent role on Twitter. 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. For most of these Twitter news consumers, the site is an important way they keep ...
- Methodology
News on Twitter: Consumed by Most Users and Trusted by Many;...
- Methodology
Dec 12, 2023 · In short, Twitter was for the news. In the heady days of the millennial media startup boom of the 2010s, the sense that large social platforms would pay publishers for content and create a new ...
- Nilay Patel
- 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 · Despite some changes to Twitter’s userbase, as well as shifts in the relationship between Twitter and news organisations, the platform is still seen as a destination for news and politics. More than other social platforms, Twitter is viewed as a place to get news, commentary, and alternative perspectives.
Mar 21, 2021 · March 21, 2021, 11:06 AM. 1:40. Twitter celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2021. ABC News Photo Illustration. Fifteen years ago, a New York University dropout shared a cryptic message online ...
- Catherine Thorbecke
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Twitter had first blocked some 250 accounts in response to a legal notice by the government, citing objections based on public order. These included accounts of an investigative news magazine, and ...
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Nov 15, 2021 · A much smaller portion of Twitter news consumers see Twitter as their central source of news. Just 8% of these news consumers say Twitter is the most important way they keep up with news, but the majority (59%) say it is an important – but not the most important way – they get news.
