Facebook Is Trying To Make Twitter Obsolete

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63% of Facebook users get their news from the social network. Likewise, Twitter sees the same percentage of its users scouring their timelines for news. Considering that Twitter prides itself on being the "real-time information" (i.e., news) network, it's interesting that more users don't use it to read the news.Twitter still holds one advantage over Facebook, and that's where its "real-time" network plays a big role. 59% of Twitter users that get news from the social network follow breaking news on the platform. That number is just 31% on Facebook.

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Facebook may be planning an attack to overcome Twitter's advantage. Business Insider reports that Facebook is working on an app that sends breaking news alerts to users, offering an alternative to Twitter.