Dept of Clinical Neurosciences
University of Cambridge
Clifford Allbutt Building
Cambridge Biosciences Campus
Hills Road, CB2 0HA Cambridge (UK)
Tel: +44 1223 762042
email: spp24@cam.ac.uk
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Topics Social Media users follow in the News
'By various measures, News and Twitter are intimately linked.
Fully 86% of Twitter users say they use the social network for news, and the vast majority of those, 74%, do so daily.
The majority of Twitter users also believe that they now get more news than they did before they joined the social network. Fully 6 out of 10 Twitter users (61%) say they get more news since joining. Just over a quarter (24%) say their news consumption has stayed about the same. Only 2% estimate they consume less news since they joined Twitter.
News on Twitter is also highly participatory, meaning it is more than just consuming news. Fully 64% of Twitter users say they both get and share news on the service. Just 21% say they just consume; only 2% say they get their news elsewhere and just use Twitter to share it.'