Pew: Political use of social media tilted liberal during campaigns

A new infographic compiled by the Pew Research Center on Thursday confirms the growing influence that social networks had over voters during Election 2012.

For now, Pew found, social media users tend to be more liberal than conservative, at 79 to 63 percent. But a growing number of Americans are using social medida tools to find information and participate in the political process through Facebook, Twitter and other online and mobile tools.

Pew rounded up multiple studies released through the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, Project for Excellence in Journalism, and Center for the People & the Press during campaign season into one infographic that shows the trends:

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