The percentage of adult Internet users on Twitter “has more than doubled since November 2010,” Pew reports.
People 18-29 are the heaviest users of the platform, but numbers are growing for other age groups. In fact, the percentage of seniors who use social networking sites has tripled since 2009, Pew reports: 43 percent of people over 65 use them now.
Previously: 16 percent of online Americans use Twitter
Media scholars at the University of Maryland documented the spread of local news dead spots — and unexpected vibrant areas — in that state.
A partnership between Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network and Google and YouTube continues to support fact-checking initiatives worldwide
IndyStar sports columnist Gregg Doyel has been crushed online and accused of being creepy, sexist and worse. He’s since apologized multiple times
Experts say musicians have been accused of performing satanic rituals for decades
Bryan VanCampen of The Ithaca Times was an institution in the central New York college town of 32,000. He might have been the last of his kind.
