On alternative social media sites, many prominent accounts seek financial support from audiences
23% of the prominent accounts on the seven alternative social media sites studied sought financial support from their audiences in June 2022.
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23% of the prominent accounts on the seven alternative social media sites studied sought financial support from their audiences in June 2022.
Around seven-in-ten U.S. adults (68%) say they ever use Facebook, a share that has remained relatively flat since 2016.
In recent years, several new options have emerged in the social media universe, many of which explicitly present themselves as alternatives to more established social media platforms. Free speech ideals and heated political themes prevail on these sites, which draw praise from their users and skepticism from other Americans.
Prominent accounts on Twitter are more likely than those on alternative social media sites to link to print publications, TV and wire services.
62% of U.S. adults under 30 say they use TikTok, compared with 39% of those ages 30 to 49, 24% of those 50 to 64, and 10% of those 65 and older.
BitChute is a video-sharing site and an alternative social media platform; here are key facts about the site and its users.
Here are key facts about the alternative social media service Rumble, an online video-sharing platform founded in 2013.
About one-in-ten U.S. adults have heard of Gab, an alternative social media site, and 1% say that they get news there regularly.
While 27% of U.S. adults say they have heard of Telegram, only 2% use the alternative social media app for news.
In just three years, the share of U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from TikTok has more than quadrupled, from 3% in 2020 to 14% in 2023.
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