Title: What Facebook and Twitter Mean for News | Pew Research Center
Headings: What Facebook and Twitter Mean for News
What Facebook and Twitter Mean for News
Facebook and Twitter Are Still Relatively Small Drivers for News
Between the Two Social Media Options, Facebook Leads
But There is No Primary Digital Device for Social Media News
Social Networks at This Point Are Mostly an Additional Way to Get News, Rather Than a Replacement Source
Twitter and Facebook Function Differently as News Sources
Consumers Are More Likely to See Facebook News as Replaceable
Twitter News Followers Are More Mobile
Who Twitter and Facebook News Users Are
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Content: Most of these users also feel that without Twitter, they would have missed this kind of news. Facebook and Twitter Are Still Relatively Small Drivers for News
Over all, just 9% of digital news consumers very often follow news recommendations from Facebook or from Twitter on any of the three digital devices ( computers, smartph o n e s or ta blets ). That compares with more than a third, 36%, who very often go directly to news organizations on one of their devices, 32% who get news from search very often, and 29% who turn to some sort of news organizer site or app. Among just digital news consumers (excluding those who say they do not get news online), the percentage who get at least some news from one of these two leading social networks rises to 52%. But this still trails by a large margin other ways of getting news (92% go directly to news websites and 85% use search). There are also substantial differences in the data between how people use each of these two forms of social media, what they think about it and who those users are. Between the Two Social Media Options, Facebook Leads
More than twice as many digital news consumers follow news recommendations from Facebook than follow them from Twitter. And that remains consistent across different digital devices (computers, smartphones or tablets). In all, on any device, 7% get news on Facebook very often, compared with 3% who do so on Twitter. Those populations may grow, or at least involve a broader universe of casual users.