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Nobody uses Facebook any more for news, X.com is where news breaks. So this makes sense.

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Research* shows that Twitter only accounts for a fraction of traffic that Facebook/Meta directs to News media.

* https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-media-...

But if you go by feels instead of data, Twitter is winning. That's what's important in 2020s discourse.

>Reuters has investigated their business and discovered, through very well endowed "research," that Twitter isn't news.

I never said that people click THROUGH to news sites from Twitter. But just that, that's where they get their news.

I thought people got their news from TikTok these days. (Or should I call it "news"?)

Dunno if I buy that personally. I don't use X/Twitter at all any more (lost interest prior to Elon buying it), and I only see it pop up in links on HN.

Now that Nitter.net has gone away (to see replies on X/Twitter), I don't even bother clicking on the Twitter stories any more.

And here I thought the paid subscription to a newspaper with journalists was how I got my news.

Guess it depends on what you call news too. I don’t typically think of media whores and liars as good news sources but to each their own.

Not sure why you are getting the downvotes, this was stated as the main reason that Meta disbanded FB News:

https://about.fb.com/news/2024/02/update-on-facebook-news-us...

"The number of people using Facebook News in Australia and the U.S. has dropped by over 80% last year. "

Hmm. I don't use FaceBook or X.

The 'news' that appears on FaceBook or X isn't.

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