This statistic deals with the use of hastags in tweets produced by major American media outlets. In the study period, Fox News used hashtags in 50 percent of its tweets.
Percentage of tweets by American media outlets that contain hashtags 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). Percentage of tweets by American media outlets that contain hashtags 2011 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 08, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/207401/hashtag-use-by-major-american-news-outlets-on-twitter/
Pew Research Center. "Percentage of tweets by American media outlets that contain hashtags 2011." Chart. November 14, 2011. Statista. Accessed January 08, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/207401/hashtag-use-by-major-american-news-outlets-on-twitter/
Pew Research Center. (2011). Percentage of tweets by American media outlets that contain hashtags 2011. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 08, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/207401/hashtag-use-by-major-american-news-outlets-on-twitter/
Pew Research Center. "Percentage of Tweets by American Media Outlets That Contain Hashtags 2011." Statista, Statista Inc., 14 Nov 2011, https://www.statista.com/statistics/207401/hashtag-use-by-major-american-news-outlets-on-twitter/
Pew Research Center, Percentage of tweets by American media outlets that contain hashtags 2011 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/207401/hashtag-use-by-major-american-news-outlets-on-twitter/ (last visited January 08, 2025)
Percentage of tweets by American media outlets that contain hashtags 2011 [Graph], Pew Research Center, November 14, 2011. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/207401/hashtag-use-by-major-american-news-outlets-on-twitter/
