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short readJun 5, 2025

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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short readsJul 12, 2011

Use Facebook Daily

A majority of adults who use Facebook interact with the website at least daily.
reportJul 7, 2011

Social Media Users Debate a Tea Party Favorite

Criticism of a 2012 GOP presidential candidate dominated the conversation on blogs last week, while Twitter users got excited over a new social networking tool from Google. On YouTube, strange objects in the air over London generated the most views.
presentationJun 28, 2011

How Social Networking Can Reinvigorate American Democracy and Civic Participation (with video & transcript)

A discussion forum focused on using social networking and digital tools to reinvigorate democracy and extend electronic engagement from campaigns and grassroots-activism to governance.
short readsJun 22, 2011

Tweeters

Among online adults, 13% use the status update service Twitter.
short readsJun 22, 2011

Twitter-Adoption Gap

A 16-point Twitter-adoption gap separates black online adults and white online adults.
reportJun 16, 2011

Social networking sites and our lives

How people’s trust, personal relationships, and civic and political involvement are connected to their use of social network sites and other technologies.
presentationJun 13, 2011

The Perfect People Meter: My Beautiful Fantasy About Understanding Audience in the Digital Age

Lee Rainie will speak to advertising executives and researchers and explore how people use digital technology and how that makes audience measure more complicated than in the past. The good news is that the coming exaflood of data will give everyo…
presentationJun 9, 2011

How Communities Learn

Lee Rainie explores the role of social networks – the technological kind as well as the real-world kind – in shaping the way people gather community information and make sense of it.
short readsJun 2, 2011

Twitter Not Making Much News

Despite its growth as a tool in the world of new media, Twitter does not yet drive a substantial amount of traffic to news websites.
reportJun 1, 2011

Twitter Update 2011

13% of online adults use Twitter, and half of Twitter users access the service “on the go” via mobile phone.

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