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Mobile, Ala. (WPMI) More Folks Turning to Social Media for News
News is transitioning into digital. It's almost the immediate reaction when you hear something to turn to the web and even more important, social media.
Facebook and Twitter aren't just social connection tools. More than half of news viewers are getting their updates via the Internet. But not just anywhere, Reddit is by far the most relied on source for news according to a study conducted by Pew Research Center posted to SocialTimes,.com.
Researchers looked at the patterns of nearly 5,200 social media users to gauge national response to news sources and news gathering. Those results reveal a lot about the trends of social media.
Here's the breakdown: Reddit was rated the highest news source with 62 percent of users. Sixty percent of news readers tend to go back to Facebook when searching for hot topics. Even if they've veered off to another site, more than half of them come back.
Twitter came in at 52 percent, but those users were more likely to switch on the television come news time. Instagram came in at 13 percent, Vine: 9 percent, Pinterest: 3 percent.
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