This statistic presents the number of Twitter feeds belonging to major American news outlets. During the time of the study, 98 Twitter feeds belonged to the Washington Post or affiliated journalists.
Number of organizational Twitter feeds belonging to major news outlets in the United States in 2011
Researchers examined the Twitter feeds of 13 major U.S. news sources at three levels, including the main feed representing the news outlet (like @washingtonpost) as well as the feeds of the individual journalists who had the
largest number of Twitter followers. In all, then, 37 different Twitter feeds were studied. A total of 3,646 tweets were examined from the week of February 14-20, 2011 (2,969 main organizational tweets and 677 journalist tweets.) In addition, that content was compared with 972 stories found on the original platforms of those news outlets from the same week.
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Pew Research Center. (November 14, 2011). Number of organizational Twitter feeds belonging to major news outlets in the United States in 2011 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved March 13, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/207367/twitter-feeds-of-major-american-news-outlets/
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Pew Research Center. (2011). Number of organizational Twitter feeds belonging to major news outlets in the United States in 2011. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: March 13, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/207367/twitter-feeds-of-major-american-news-outlets/
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