Facebook may no longer be used exclusively for getting in touch with your friends and family. News is the go-to item on the feed.
Eighty-nine percent of the U.S. mobile population – which consists of 144 million users – access their news and information through their mobile devices, according to a report by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation released on Wednesday.
Additionally, there were 27% of mobile users spend more than 12 hours per month on social networking sites, and 70% of Facebook users use the social media platform every day.
These platforms provide immense opportunity for news organizations to use social media to reach a wider audience. Fifty-nine percent of Facebook users and 41% of Twitter users talk about news somewhere else in person.
The highest shared news for social media platforms was entertainment, while U.S. news, politics, technology, business and sports were among the other shared news sites.
The report comes in the wake of a recent report about Facebook’s news curation process. The social media platform routinely suppressed news stories that were conservative, Facebook workers told Gizmodo.