Twitter has an "outsized role" in politics. But new poll finds just 29% get political news from it

Popular political Twitter accounts frequently use the refrain "Twitter is not real life," and data from a recent CBS News poll backs that up with just 29% of respondents saying they use Twitter to ... Read More

Pew confirms what we already knew: People like to retweet political hot takes

While it’s no secret that social media shapes our political discourse, a new study by the Pew Research Center reveals to what extent. Nearly one in three tweets posted by American adults are political ... Read More

Politics on Twitter: One-Third of Tweets From U.S. Adults Are Political

Pew Research Center conducted this study to gain insight into Twitter users’ political engagement, attitudes and behaviors on the platform. For this analysis, we surveyed 2,548 U.S. adult Twitter ... Read More

Quarter of adult US Twitter users responsible for 99 percent of political tweets: study

A quarter of the adult Twitter users in the United States are responsible for 99 percent of political tweets, according to a Pew Research Center study released Thursday. The finding is in line with ... Read More

Young adults are less likely to follow politics or say voting is important: poll

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mairekk Griffiths, a 26-year-old cook in a Denver suburb, doesn’t think he’ll ever pay a lot of attention to U.S. politics unless radical change happens. “If another party was likely ... Read More