How People Use Twitter to Get News
Earlier people used to come from office in the evening and sit in front of television to get daily news updates. During the past decade with the ever-growing popularity of internet and social media, news broadcasts has come a long way too. It has broken the barriers of television-box and now jumped to all the latest devices like desktops, notebooks or smart phones. Now anyone can easily get news updates through internet and even through various social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook etc.
Twitter is a great source of daily news diet for your hungry mind. As per survey conducted by Pew Research Center during Jan 12, 2016 to Feb 8, 2016 there is 7 % increase in people using Twitter as news source i.e. from 52% in 2013 to 59% in 2016. From the given facts it can be noticed that use of Twitter as new source is continuing to rise.
Twitter users following news based channels tend to rely heavily on such service and majority of them use it several times a day. Type of news also affects the behavioral pattern of the followers. People browsing through regular news will be doing-so out of habit or occasionally to pass their time. But in the event of any breaking news, users tend to become more engaging & participating by posting, commenting and sharing it.
One of the biggest reasons for success of Twitter as reliable news source is “Twitter Trends”. It gives information about the latest trending events happening country wise or globally. Adding on, with presence of all the leading news papers through there Twitter account and regularly posting tweets based on real-time news update is more informative then regular newspaper.
Gone are the days when news was for business people or working people only. Even a teenager today is interested in knowing about the economy, politics and events happening locally or globally. With more than 310 million monthly active users, twitter provides a great platform to all the news hungry people out there.
Twitter is a great source of daily news diet for your hungry mind. As per survey conducted by Pew Research Center during Jan 12, 2016 to Feb 8, 2016 there is 7 % increase in people using Twitter as news source i.e. from 52% in 2013 to 59% in 2016. From the given facts it can be noticed that use of Twitter as new source is continuing to rise.
Twitter users following news based channels tend to rely heavily on such service and majority of them use it several times a day. Type of news also affects the behavioral pattern of the followers. People browsing through regular news will be doing-so out of habit or occasionally to pass their time. But in the event of any breaking news, users tend to become more engaging & participating by posting, commenting and sharing it.
One of the biggest reasons for success of Twitter as reliable news source is “Twitter Trends”. It gives information about the latest trending events happening country wise or globally. Adding on, with presence of all the leading news papers through there Twitter account and regularly posting tweets based on real-time news update is more informative then regular newspaper.
Gone are the days when news was for business people or working people only. Even a teenager today is interested in knowing about the economy, politics and events happening locally or globally. With more than 310 million monthly active users, twitter provides a great platform to all the news hungry people out there.
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