“Twitter might still feel big for journalists who spend all day on the platform, and fully 59 percent of Twitter users do get news on the service, third after Reddit and Facebook. But only 16 percent of U.S. adults use Twitter in the first place, and only 9 percent of adults get news there. Compare that to Facebook, which is used by 67 percent of U.S. adults, with 44 percent of U.S. adults getting news there, according to Pew Research Center.”

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