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# 1 in 10 Americans Now Get News Through Twitter
- URL: https://ivn.us/1-10-americans-now-get-news-twitter/
- Published: 2013-11-08T14:30:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-22T19:42:53.000Z
- Author: Jane Susskind
- Tags: News

Just days before Twitter's debut on Wall Street, Pew Research Center released a [report](http://www.journalism.org/files/2013/11/Twitter-IPO-release-with-cover-page-new2.pdf?ref=ivn.us) outlining the role of news on Twitter and the demographic of Twitter news consumers.The key finding: Twitter users who consumer news on the social network tend to be

***young***, ***educated***, and using a ***mobile*** device to access the news.

![twitter_news_consumption](https://storage.ghost.io/c/dc/be/dcbe1ac4-146f-43be-92a6-ea84728d86a6/content/images/2026/02/twitter_and_news.jpg)

The report comes shortly after Pew's release of a [detailed analysis](https://ivn.us/2013/11/06/10-ways-facebook-improving-way-get-news) of the role of news on Facebook, which finds Facebook news consumers to be higher in number, but not age.

Of those who receive news on Facebook, 34% are between the age of 18-29 year old. Almost half of Twitter news consumers - 45% - are young.

Pew's *Twitter News Consumers: Young, Mobile and Education* goes on to note that while attracting a highly educated audience, with four in ten Twitter news consumers having received a bachelor's degree, Twitter conversations do not represent public sentiment.

"During the 2012 presidential race, Republican candidate Ron Paul easily won the Twitter primary — 55% of the conversation about him was positive, with only 15% negative. Voters rendered a very different verdict," the report notes, referencing a previous Pew study on [Twitter Reaction to Events](https://ivn.us/2013/03/06/twitter-vs-polls-how-to-best-measure-public-opinion/).

The main purpose of Twitter is to spread breaking news.

# **Is Twitter a good platform to get news from?**