( CNN ) -- Nearly one in 10 U.S. adults get news from Twitter , and they tend to be younger , more educated and more mobile than news consumers overall , says a new report . About 8 % of American adults say they rely on Twitter for news , according to a new report from the Pew Research Journalism Project . The report defines news defined as `` information about events and issues that involve more than just your friends or family . '' The report comes as more and more people turn to social media as a source for news , and as Twitter prepares to begin trading shares this week as a public company . It was published Monday by the Pew Research Center in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation . The report follows a similar study last month from Pew that found 30 percent of Americans get news on Facebook . Twitter news consumers skew younger and more educated than those who get their news from Facebook , and are more likely to consume news on a mobile device , according to the new report . Monday 's report found that 40 % of all U.S. adults get news `` at least sometimes '' on mobile devices , compared to 85 % of Twitter news consumers and 64 % of Facebook news consumers . Information seekers on Twitter are relative youngsters . Forty-five percent of Twitter news consumers are 18-29 years old , while only 2 % of Twitter news consumers are 65 or older . By contrast , 34 % of Facebook news consumers are 18-29 years old and seven percent are 65 years or older . Compare this to the 21 % of the total U.S. population who are between 18 and 29 , and the 18 % who are 65 and up . On Twitter , 40 % of news consumers have at least a bachelor 's degree , compared to 30 % of Facebook news consumers and 29 % of Americans overall . The Pew report includes analysis of Twitter conversations related to major news events , such as the acquittal of George Zimmerman , the Florida man accused in the shooting death of teen-ager Trayvon Martin . The analyses showed that breaking news , not opinion , made up the majority of Twitter news content . In the case of the Zimmerman verdict , the largest segment of the Twitter conversation -- 39 % of all sentiments expressed about the verdict -- shared news without offering an opinion . The study also found that conversations on Twitter can evolve quickly , and entiment about a news topic can shift . For example , in the two weeks after Supreme Court hearings on same-sex marriage in March , Twitter sentiment was against legalizing same-sex marriage by a wide margin of 55 % to 32 % . Yet a month later , opinions on Twitter favored same-sex marriage by 43 % to 26 % . But the report noted that Twitter sentiment does n't always reflect the population at large . The Pew report is based on a survey of more than 5,000 U.S. adults in late August and early September , along with an analysis of Twitter conversations surrounding major news events . Researchers analyzed Twitter posts for `` information shared , sentiments expressed and ebb and flow of interest . '' Get CNN breaking news on Twitter @ cnnbrk .
Nearly 1 in 10 U.S. adults receive news from Twitter , says a new news report . Twitter users are younger , more educated and more mobile than news users overall . The report says that Twitter sentiment does n't always reach the population at large .