Jun 16, 2020

Instagram 'will overtake Twitter as a news source'

Photo-sharing app Instagram is set to overtake Twitter as a news source, research suggests. The 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News report found the use of Instagram for news had doubled since 2018. It said nearly a quarter of UK 18-24-year-olds used Instagram as a source of news about coronavirus. Instagram is now used by more than a third of all people who answered the survey, and two-thirds of under-25s. And 11% use it for news, putting it just one point behind Twitter. Less than half - 46% - said they trusted their favoured news source.

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