Twitter has revealed that 59% of UK users follow news brands or journalists.
In the UK, 15M people have Twitter.
This is just a fraction of the 320M people worldwide who use the social network.
Twitter is hugely popular with journalists, and it will come as good news to all journalist Twitterers that 59% of UK Twitter users follow either a news brand or a journalist.
This figure was released by Twitter to coincide with it's 10th birthday.
Twitter also revealed that 75% of users think that "Twitter is an important link to more in-depth content found on news sites", while 56% of Twitter news brand followers visit the social network on a daily basis.
Popular UK news brands on Twitter include:
- @BBCBreaking (21.5m followers)
- @BBCWorld (13.5m followers)
- @theeconomist (13.5m followers)
- @Reuters (12.1m followers)
- @BBCNews (6.19m followers)
- @BBCSport (5.32m followers)
- @guardian (5.28m followers)
- @FinancialTimes (4.97m followers)
- @SkySportsNewsHQ (4.56m followers).