Social Media Usage: 2005-2015
Nearly two-thirds of American adults (65%) use social networking sites, up from 7% when Pew Research Center began tracking social media usage in 2005.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Nearly two-thirds of American adults (65%) use social networking sites, up from 7% when Pew Research Center began tracking social media usage in 2005.
A Pew Research Center analysis of the most visited pages in each language in 2015 tells a story about how the various versions are used.
Hispanics are more likely than whites or blacks to categorize themselves as gamers.
For many Americans, one device isn’t enough.
An analysis of how 12 heavily visited U.S. news websites covered the pope’s visit to America. The news narrative around Pope Francis’ visit to the United States drew heavily upon the Pope and the public as sources.
Six-in-ten app downloaders have chosen not to install an app when they discovered how much personal information the app required in order to use it.
Americans are more likely to get news on Twitter and Facebook than ever before. Our new study explores the similarities and differences in the role of news on these two social networks.
Some 73% of online men use social media, on par with the 80% of online women who say they do so. But there are still some gender differences on specific platforms.
Overall, 16% of registered voters follow candidates for office, political parties, or elected officials on a social networking site.
More Americans get news on Twitter and Facebook today than in the past. We pulled together key facts about news consumption on these two popular social media sites.
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