![Twitter vs. Facebook As A News Source [CHART]](https://trends.e-strategyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/PJ_2015.07.14_Twitter-and-News_03.png "Chart - Twitter vs. Facebook As A News Source")
On both Facebook and Twitter, more users are getting news than in the past. As of early 2015, 63% of Facebook and Twitter users get news on their respective sites. This is up substantially from 2013, when about half of each social network’s users (47% for Facebook and 52% for Twitter) reported getting news there.
These changes can be tied to many factors including personal behavior, increased activity by news organizations, as well as changes in the platforms’ filtering algorithms or content structures. This increase in exposure to news, defined as information about events and issues beyond just friends and family, emerges as overall usage of each social site has remained steady. Close to two-in-ten (17%) U.S. adults use Twitter and two-thirds (66%) use Facebook, according to the survey. But, since the portion of users who get news on the social networks has grown, more Americans overall are getting news through each site:One-in-ten U.S. adults get news on Twitter and about four-in-ten (41%) get news on Facebook. Read the rest at Pew Research.
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