ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, September/October 2017

Twitter news sharing patterns for Australian news sites in recent months point to the considerable public attention directed at a handful of key issues. The September/October period is once again notable for a number of major ABC News stories that attracted attention on Twitter well above the long-term average. The first of these, trending from …

ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, August 2017

Audience engagement on social media is an enormously powerful tool for boosting the circulation of news stories, as this month’s Australian Twitter News Index (ATNIX) shows: a number of Australian news stories go viral well beyond their intended target audience. But away from these momentary successes, a quieter shift is underway, too: ABC News is …