Half of the most popular news on Twitter is not...
Half of the most popular news on Twitter is not covered by traditional news media sources -- ScienceDaily http://t.co/r1WKGJe7iV
August 02, 2015
Half of the most popular news on Twitter is not covered by traditional news media sources
Half of the news that appears on Twitter as 'trending topics' goes unmentioned in the traditional news media, and when both sources carry it, 60 percent of the stories appear first on the social network. Those are some of the conclusions of a study which analyzes the dissemination of news on Twitter compared with the traditional media.