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There is no better source of real-time news than Twitter. With the constant sharing of news and information, if you're an active Twitter user, there's nothing happening, big or small, that you won't know right away.

News seems to travel far more quickly on Twitter and Facebook than through search.

I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed.

I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.

The truth is I don't watch a lot of news, except for when I'm here at the office watching Fox News. I get my news online primarily when I'm not watching the channel.

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

One of the things that Flipboard is great at is certainly looking at the news in a realtime format, which a lot of the personal news aggregators don't really focus on, so you can see things right up to the minute.

Twitter and Facebook are brilliant tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.

If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.