When reading the articles about Twitter as an emerging news
source, a couple of things stood out to me. I thought the statistics in the
Twitter news consumers article were interesting. The fact that those who use
Twitter as a news source tend to be younger was not surprising, but the fact
that the Twitter users are more educated. “Four-in-ten (40%) Twitter news
consumers have at least a bachelor’s degree, compared with 29% of the total
population and 30% of Facebook news consumers.” (Mitchell and Guskin) When I think more about this it
makes sense, but I never thought about it before. I only recently started
getting my news from Twitter. Now that there is so much news out there it can
become overwhelming so I finally gave in to using it for news.
I also thought the statistics about how people’s opinions
changed regarding major issues after they’d been on Twitter were interesting. I
think this is one of the reasons Twitter is an important tool for journalists.
Twitter lends itself to the evolving nature of news stories, which allows
journalists to get the story out as it develops.
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