Social media plays “modest” role in US election…so far
Research out by Pew shows that when it comes to the major US hard news story of 2012, the Presidential election, voters prefer tried...
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Significant number of newspaper visits driven by Facebook
Here’s a chart that neatly shows how social media is driving a sizeable chunk of traffic towards news sites. According to...
read moreTwitter shaped the 2011 news agenda over Facebook
Despite commanding 95% of social networking time in the US it is Twitter which shaped the news agenda in 2011. According to Highbeam...
read moreIndonesia, Russia, Egypt lead in social media use
US research house Pew has come out with a global study breaking down the use of mobile / cell phones, the Internet and social...
read moreWomen, younger users now use social media for ‘breaking newsR...
UK communications and media regulator OFCOM has come out with another mammoth piece of research, this time the international...
read moreGrowing impact of Tumblr, Stumbleupon shares revealed
Website sharing widget AddThis has published some stats (via ClickZ) about how content on its 11+ million domains is shared. No huge...
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