In this study, it is aimed to reveal the importance of social media in terms of digital newspapers. With this aim, the social media strategies of digital newspapers and the infuence of social media on the number of the news read by the users are questioned. The research was carried out with the newspapers T24, Korhaber, and Rotahaber that enable the access of the reports of Google Analytics. Finally, this research demonstrates that the newspapers employ special sharing formats to attract the users. The main objectives of the posts they share are to both increase the number of the visitors of the site and strengthen the news of the agenda that is set. It was also fgured out that the changes of time zone do not have any effect on the sort of the news read in the posts shared. It was observed that the newspapers could feature different news on both Facebook and Twitter. When the infuence of the social media on the number of the news read in the digital newspapers was scrutinized, various percentages were obtained for every newspaper read. Finally, it was observed that social media infuences digital newspapers to a certain extent, but this effect is less than expected. The results indicated that Twitter has more infuence on the rate of the digital newspapers read in Turkey.