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Male journalists followed 3 times more than females

Muck Rack tracks major news organizations on Twitter. Currently, they list journalists from 37 organizations. I recently examined the 3 most followed journalists from each organizations and found 27 of the 111 journalists are women, compared to 84 men.
All one: In two organizations, the three most popular Twitter users were all female. In 17 organizations, they [...]

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Sites link to Twitter more than three top newspapers combined

According to Google, 77,400 web pages link to Twitter.com.
You can find links to a particular web site — the USA Today site for example — by searching for Google for “link:usatoday.com“. Results for Twitter look like this:

I ran that same kind of search for the top three U.S. newspapers (by circulation), and found 71,200 links to their sites. That’s 6,200 less than Twitter.
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Journalists retweeted more than top newspaper sites

Last week, we saw that The Wall Street Journal’s main Twitter account was retweeted more “per capita” than the other four top newspaper web sites in the U.S.
This week, I’ve compiled a list of 13 journalists, many of whom work for those newspaper sites, who were retweeted up to 5 times more than @WSJ. The number next to each [...]

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How frequently are top newspaper sites retweeted?

Editor & Publisher shared a list of top newspaper web sites in March, ranked by unique audience. Here is the top of that list, along with each site’s main Twitter account, its RTPMF as calculated by Retweetist, and the number of times it has been retweeted:

NYTimes.com (@nytimes): 1.1 RTPMF, with 761 retweets in the last 7 days
USATODAY.com (@USATODAY): 5.2 RTPMF, with 47 retweets in the last [...]

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