26% of Americans Get News on Multiple Social Networks

Americans are on multiple social media networks, but only 26% of them get news on more than one, leading to fragmentation of news gathering through social media.

The vast majority (65%) of Americans only gets news on one social network, and Facebook is the king, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center, released on Thursday.

The study also shows that very few Americans use big social networks like LinkedIn, Pinterest or Google+ to get their news. After Facebook, and perhaps surprisingly, YouTube is the social network with the second greatest reach; 10% of Americans click on news links there. Read more...