Wednesday 26 February 2014

The BBC is the most shared source by UK Twitter users

"PEERINDEX TWITTER UK MEDIA SOCIAL SHARING INDEX, JANUARY 2014
Shares by UK Twitter users
1 BBC  - 4265k
2 Guardian - 2423k
3 Telegraph - 913k
4 Independent - 616k
5 Daily Mail - 453k
6 Mirror - 452k
7 Huffington Post - 422k
8 New York Times - 329k
9 Sky News - 319k
10 BuzzFeed - 235k
Source:  PeerIndex data for the UK from January 2014, reported February 24th 2014
Note - Full 50 top sources listed in the full report
Methodology:
"We looked at at a statistically valid sample of content from media outlets was shared by Twitter users in the UK. We counted both tweets and retweets of content. We tracked content by looking at the URLs (including blog URLs) used by these outlets. We only counted tweets from users our classification systems had recognised as being from the UK. We counted general news sources, both online and off. We excluded trade papers like Mashable. We also excluded aggregators (like Google News and Reddit)."

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