Weeks after the Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalism reported that Facebook users limit their Facebook time to visual exhibitionism rather than reading , today, another Pew Research report states that nearly one-in-ten U.S. adults (8%) get their news through Twitter. “Twitter news” is usually chirped news passed along by those who read the headlines to those who read emoticons. However, because the twitter users engage the medium by reading rather than posting pictures of themselves, the report concludes that the
Twitter news consumers stand out as younger, more mobile and more educated.
On a sadder note, a separate Pew Research Center analysis of Twitter conversations around the tweeted news reveals that those conversations mention the event at the heart of the news to say:
Explosion in Syria. On TV. Sports Bar on 4th Street. Really cold beer.
To read the Pew Center report, go to http://pewrsr.ch/HqSKYT.
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I liked the Twitter punchline – (is it supposed to be “beer” or some kind of metaphor for lonely Russians?)
…typo…beer…thanks for catching it…dana