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Most-Used Platforms: YouTube (85%) and Facebook (70%) are the most widely used online platforms among U.S. adults. (Read the fact sheet)
News on Social Media: Just over half of U.S. adults (54%) say they at least sometimes get news from social media. (Read the fact sheet)
Teens & Social Media: Many teens are on social media daily – if not constantly – but daily use varies by platform. (Read the fact sheet)

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Most X users say their recent experiences using the platform have been mostly positive or neutral.

short readMay 29, 2025

The share of news influencers in our sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months after Election Day 2024, from 21% beforehand to 43% by March.

short readMar 25, 2025

A TikTok user records a video outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 17, 2025. (Kent Nishimura/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The share of Americans who perceive TikTok as a national security threat has also dipped – from 59% in 2023 to 49% now.

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reportMay 2, 2005

New data on blogs and blogging

About 6% of U.S. adults have created blogs and 16% of them read blogs
reportApr 19, 2005

White Smoke and the Pope Blog

Despite the rapturous speed with which the news of the newly elected Pope disseminated in digital bits and bytes throughout the world today, the source that first announced the breaking story was the same brick-and-mortar reporter we’ve relied on …
reportApr 15, 2005

Meetup Says ‘Pony Up’

Meetup.com, the favorite web business of political sociologists, announced yesterday that it will institute a fee for its community organizing service beginning May 1.
reportApr 12, 2005

Netting Your Nuptials

Maybe it was the news of the royal wedding last weekend, or maybe it’s my own personal experience with wedding planning, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the role the internet plays in planning, promoting and archiving a major life event …
reportApr 7, 2005

Young people with broadband at home have distinctive news consumption habits

Are we entering an era of “user-generated” online content? We may not quite be there. But if you look at how young people with high-speed connections interface with the news, the phrase “news consumers” doesn’t capture what these people do when th…
reportJan 24, 2005

Social Networks and Bookmarking

Share your bookmarks and teach the world.
reportJan 21, 2005

Bloggers Unite!

As President Bush declares one of his main goals for his second term to be to reform Social Security, a number of bloggers have united in opposition and are using the internet as a tool for political organization and action.
reportJan 14, 2005

Inauguration organizing on the Web

Inauguration organizing takes to the Web.
reportOct 20, 2004

Use of Online Rating Systems

33 million American internet users have reviewed or rated someone or something as part of an online rating system.
reportJan 4, 2004

Sharp decline in music file swappers

The percentage of American adult Internet users who say they download music drops by half and the usage of some file-sharing applications declines.

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Republicans and Democrats on X differ over the site’s politics and their experiences

Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular

Fewer Americans now support TikTok ban, see the platform as a national security threat than in spring 2023