Just 9 percent of American adults turn to Facebook and Twitter on a regular basis for news, according to , a report from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Instead of looking to their family, friends, acquaintances, and colleagues, most people still get their information from news organizations (36 percent), search engines (32 percent) and news aggregation sites and apps such as Google News and (29 percent), the Pew study finds.

Not surprisingly, those numbers change when you exclude non-digital news consumers and count only people who go online for their primary or only news sources.  More than half -- 52 percent -- of those digital news consumers get at least some news from Facebook and Twitter. But digital news readers still prefer to get their data directly from news organizations (92 percent) and search engines (85 percent).

Despite Twitter's reputation for breaking news, it appears that Facebook is where people are most likely to turn to get news recommendations. Seven percent of U.S. digital news consumers say they get news on Facebook very often, the Pew's survey finds, while 3 percent turn to Twitter with the same frequency.