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Reuters journalists double Twitter usage

December 30, 2013

Posted by Chris Roush

Journalists at Reuters more than doubled their usage of Twitter in 2013, according to data from Muck Rake.

Gregory Galant, the CEO of Muck Rack, notes that 238 Reuters journalists were using Twitter in 2012. That number increased to 496 in 2013.

In addition, CNBC anchor Melissa Lee was the journalist who started a Twitter feed in 2013 and received the largest number of followers, with more than 19,000. Lionel Barber, the Financial Times editor who started a Twitter feed in 2013, was third with more than 11,900 followers.

See all of the data here.

 

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