The next-largest category is sports teams and athletes The report also says journalists and news organizations are the most active group on Twitter, a claim it supports with two metrics: follower ratios and number of tweets. News organizations and journalists tweet frequently about the content they produce and consume, and verified journalists follow more users on average compared to other verified groups in the Twitterverse. From the report:. This might be why Twitter founder Jack Dorsey recently thanked journalists for making the social media platform into a destination for news.
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At the time of study, Maddow was followed by 1. Of the 13 most heavily followed individuals at the news organizations in the study, the average number of tweets in a week was 32, or five times per day.
When these journalists did tweet, very little of that material was information-gathering in nature. Eight of the 13 reporters examined never asked followers to help provide information. One question is the degree to which individuals use Twitter in a more personal way.
The idea that Twitter is the venue where professionals share details of their personal lives was true to some degree among the reporters studied. As with other findings, there was a wide range when it came to how casual those reporters were in their Twitter persona.
Those personal anecdotes were sometimes not particularly informational "Comparing notes with David Brooks backstage before our Intelligence Squared debate at NYU tonight 2partydebate" -Arianna Huffington ; other instances were more clearly light-hearted "just wiped out on some ice.
Individual reporters did not retweet other content often during the week studied. But on the whole, journalists chose instead to simply share their own comments or link to their own stories, making it more of a micro-blogging tool than an interactive social media tool.
In addition to studying the most-followed media personalities at major U. Overall, the findings suggest that when one moves away from the most popular Twitter personalities, usage becomes less personal, but also more interactive.
On average, the health reporters studied tweeted less frequently throughout the course of the week than the most-followed figures, with a mean of 23 tweets compared with Yet health reporters were at the same time more engaging than the most-followed users were.
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It organizes the public into nine distinct groups, based on an analysis of their attitudes and values. Even in a polarized era, the survey reveals deep divisions in both partisan coalitions. Pew Research Center now uses as the last birth year for Millennials in our work. President Michael Dimock explains why. The vast majority of U.
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