{"id":29790,"date":"2023-01-12T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/pew-compares-links-shared-by-prominent-twitter-users-with-those-on-alternative-platforms\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T23:24:10","slug":"pew-compares-links-shared-by-prominent-twitter-users-with-those-on-alternative-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/pew-compares-links-shared-by-prominent-twitter-users-with-those-on-alternative-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Pew Compares Links Shared By Prominent Twitter Users With Those on Alternative Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pew Research Center<\/a> shared a new study<\/a> examining links shared by prominent Twitter accounts and how they differ from those shared on alternative social media platforms such as Parler<\/a> and Truth Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The think tank compiled a list of 1,125 prominent accounts on Twitter and 200 apiece on seven alternative platforms\u2014BitChute<\/a>, Gab<\/a>, Gettr<\/a>, Parler, Rumble<\/a>, Telegram<\/a> and Truth Social\u2014and analyzed all posts with links from those accounts last June, predating Elon Musk\u2019s acquisition of Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pew found that 66% of links shared by prominent Twitter accounts last June directed readers to media outlets including print publications, television and wire services, compared with just 5% of those shared by prominent accounts on alternative social media sites.<\/p>\n

According to the research firm, the 10 most-shared sites by prominent Twitter accounts were the online sites of news organizations such as The New York Times<\/a>, Reuters<\/a> and The Washington Post<\/a>, while the 10 most-shared sites by the other platforms in the study were primarily other social media channels and two digital-only outlets, The Gateway Pundit and Rebel News.<\/p>\n

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Pew director of data labs Aaron Smith and computational social scientist Regina Widjaya<\/a> wrote in the study, \u201cWhile these differences in linking practices between more established and alternative social media sites are notable, they may not come as a surprise to regular visitors of the alternative social media universe. In the center\u2019s recent study<\/a>, 52% of those who regularly get news on alternative social media sites say that they either extremely or fairly often see news on these sites that they would not have seen elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n