Journalists May Prefer Twitter, But Their Readers Often Do Not

Pew Research Center found a divide between the social platforms used by the media and those used to consume the media

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Twitter is by far the most-used social media platform among journalists, but that does not necessarily hold true for consumers of their journalism, according to a new study from Pew Research Center.

Pew senior researcher Jeffrey Gottfried and senior writer Mark Jurkowitz wrote in the introduction to the study, “More than nine in 10 journalists in the U.S. (94%) use social media for their jobs, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey of reporters, editors and others working in the news industry.

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