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New stats re Twitter & breaking news again show disparity between media's focus on tech vs how people actually use it

Posted On 2013.11.052022.04.05In Sources

Breaking new-Twitter chart

Sixteen percent of Twitter users “say they turn to Twitter frequently for breaking news,” a poll by Associated Press and CNBC says. “That said, 44 percent of users do so at least some of the time.” And yet far fewer Americans get news from Twitter (8 percent) than from Facebook (30 percent), separate analysis the Pew Research Center released Monday says.

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