D.C.’s Twitter obsession largely ignored

Published October 1, 2012 4:00am ET



Sorry Washington, but all those really important tweets reporters, politicians, lobbyists and issue advocates spew out daily on Twitter are mostly being ignored by the rest of the world.

Pew Research Center reveals in a new social media survey that just 13% of adults use Twitter or read Twitter messages. Worse: “Twitter barely registers as a news source. Just three percent say they regularly get news on Twitter,” said Pew.

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