MUMBAI: With the world slowly transitioning into digital, modes of consumption are also witnessing a change. According to the latest study by the Pew research centre conducted on people above 18 years of age, it was observed that 30 per cent of Facebook users use it for news while eight per cent of Twitter users consume news from it.

Most of this consumption is coming from mobile devices with Twitter outpacing Facebook by 21 per cent with 85 per cent consumption from mobile devices. At the same time, Twitter users are turning out to be young audiences between 18 to 29 years. The study also showed that 84 per cent of US adults are not using Twitter.

Twitter news consumers also tend to be more educated with nearly 40 per cent holding a bachelors degree while Facebook news consumers are 30 per cent.