The latest research from the Pew research shows that only just 11% of people has seen news on Twitter, versus 47% for Facebook, Google+, and other social sites
About one-in-ten Americans (13%) ever use Twitter or read Twitter messages. By comparison, more than half (54%) ever use other social networking sites, such as Facebook, Google Plus or LinkedIn.
As a result, far fewer
people get news on Twitter than on other social networking sites. Just 11% ever
see news on Twitter, while 3% got news there yesterday. Nearly half of adults
(47%) ever get news on Facebook and other social networking sites and 19% got
news on one or more of those sites a year ago