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Pew Research CenterJanuary 26, 2018
Sources Shared on Twitter: A Case Study on Immigration

On Twitter, the most shared news and current events sites about immigration tended to be legacy news organizations

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On Twitter, the most shared news and current events sites about immigration tended to be legacy news organizations

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Sources Shared on Twitter: A Case Study on Immigration
News Organizations made up about four-in-ten of most linked-to sites in immigration-related tweets, and the majority of tweets contained links to them
Majority of News Organizations linked to in immigration-related tweets were created before 2015
On Twitter, the most shared news and current events sites about immigration tended to be legacy news organizations
How Pew Research Center studied tweets about immigration from the first month of Trump’s presidency
News Organizations made up about four-in-ten of most linked-to sites in immigration-related tweets
Majority of News Organizations linked to in immigration-related tweets were created before 2015
Digital-native commentary/blog sites linked to in immigration-related tweets more likely to declare a conservative ideology than other current events sites
Digital-native news and commentary/blog sites linked to in immigration related tweets more likely to be anti-establishment
Legacy news organizations made up the greatest portion of sites, and an even greater portion of immigration-related tweets contained links to them
Legacy news organizations among top shared sites in immigration-related tweets
Volume of immigration-related tweets peaked just after Trump’s executive orders on immigration
Site categories and groupings
Site age
Site self-described ideology
Site self-described ideology by grouping
Sites’ self-described orientation toward the media or the “establishment”
Sites’ self-described orientation toward the media or the “establishment” by grouping
Tweets pointing to sites
Tweets by day
Most shared sites

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