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Twitter goes public<\/a> today as shares in the company start trading on the New York Stock Exchange. And if you are like 8% of U.S. adults who use Twitter to track news, you might be among those following developments about the IPO on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n

\"DN_Twitter_Users\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n

Twitter has over 230 million monthly active users, with 77% of its accounts outside the U.S. About three-quarters of Twitter users access the site through mobile devices. All in all, 500 million Tweets are being sent each day, according to the company\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

A Pew Research Center survey<\/a> conducted Aug. 21 \u2013 Sept. 2 found that 16% of U.S. adults use Twitter and roughly half of that number \u00a0consume news there.<\/p>\n\n

Close to half of those Twitter \u00a0news consumers (45%) are young people, ages 18 to 29, compared with 34% of Facebook news consumers in the same age group.<\/p>\n\n

Young people also stand out as a group who have increasingly turned to online sources for news. For the overall public, those who cite the internet as their main news source<\/a> climbed from 13% in 2001 to 50% today \u2014 more than radio (23%) and newspaper (28%) but less than television (69%). But for young people, \u00a071% say the internet is<\/i> their main source of news, in contrast with 18% of those 65 and older.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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