Sizing Up Twitter Users
Twitter users are younger, more likely to identify as Democrats, more highly educated and have higher incomes than U.S. adults overall.
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Twitter users are younger, more likely to identify as Democrats, more highly educated and have higher incomes than U.S. adults overall.
An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts – not human beings.
Pew Research Center is redoubling its focus on the role of information and trust in democratic societies.
America’s confidence in the scientific community appears to be relatively strong. But the degree of public trust in scientists across climate, food and medical issues varies, and many express moderate rather than strongly positive views.
Read a Q&A with Michael Dimock, president of Pew Research Center, on recent developments in public opinion polling and what lies ahead.
The 700+ unpledged party leaders and elected officials are mostly white, mostly men and mostly Hillary Clinton supporters.
Analysis of over 1 million apps in Google’s Android operating system in 2014 shows apps can seek 235 different kinds of permissions from smartphone users. The average app asks for five permissions.
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.
The roughly 47% of the population today who were born under the one-child policy lived through a very different China than those born before.
President Obama’s recent interviews with Buzzfeed and Vox, and his embrace of online news and social media more generally, stands in a long tradition of presidents employing novel communications technologies to speak to Americans directly.
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