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# Why journos love Twitter and fear Facebook
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2013/11/twitter-journalists-facebook-traffic/
- Published: 2013-11-13T22:35:34.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:05:38.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Facebook, Journalists, X (Twitter)

Twitter drives a tenth of the traffic that Facebook does to news sites. So [why are journalists so obsessed with Twitter](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/11/why-do-journalists-prefer-twitter-to-facebook/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)?

Well, there’s a good reason:

> The reason, I think, is that Twitter is simply more useful for our jobs. For better or worse, it’s where news breaks today. It’s also where a lot of real-time reporting happens.

And a bad one:

> The fact that so many journalists are on Twitter has made Twitter incredibly professionally valuable to journalists. Tweeting your articles ensures they’re seen — and discussed, and retweeted — within a community that includes not just your friends and peers, but the people who might hire you someday.

There’s also one he doesn’t mention: Facebook is harder to use than Twitter. To get maximum return from it journalistically, you have to cultivate a subscriber community, understand how the algorithm-that-replaced-Edgerank works, and be prepared to maintain a community so that your posts keep appearing in news feeds. Twitter looks broadcast-y enough that journalists can get their heads around it easily.

Still, missed opportunity…