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Pew report shows TikTok’s rise and YouTube’s ubiquity


Pew's latest report sheds light into U.S. social media use, with some interesting results.

Social media apps can rise quickly and burn out just as fast, but taking a step back and looking at those trends on a longer timeline offers a better glimpse at the big picture. While many social media stalwarts mostly hovered near their previous numbers from 2021 — including X, formerly Twitter, surprisingly — TikTok saw relatively explosive growth over the two year timeframe. Pew also collected some demographic information on race, allowing the survey to get a bit more granular on how different communities engage with social apps.

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