But twitterers also use the service to get quick answers to questions or to get breaking news.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Yet much of the news that people get online still comes from newspapers.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

You can also post comments and get the latest news.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

And the bad news is it is going to get worse and we're not coming out of this fast.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

"For a lot of Iranians,like a year ago, it became one of the foremost important tools to get news from inside Iran.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

At a news conference in London, international journalists competed with one another to get the president's attention.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

"And although we have green shoots and for the moment the news is good, I think we could have challenges as we get to the end of the year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.05

Right after the elections, basically the international news agencies were not allowed to get news and the first place you would check for the videos from Iran, the protest videos and so on, was just on Facebook."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23