New Media Index: 2011 MTV Video Music Awards Top Twitter, YouTube

The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards dominated Twitter and YouTube in the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Aug. 29-Sept. 2, while bloggers focused on a much more serious event in Hurricane Irene.

The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards dominated Twitter and YouTube in the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Aug. 29-Sept. 2, while bloggers focused on a much more serious event in Hurricane Irene.

The annual MTV extravaganza was the topic of the most news links shared via Twitter for the week, followed by: Korean boy band Super Junior; suggestions on how to use Facebook; the upcoming iPhone 5; and an interactive timeline of the evolution of the Web, created by members of the Google Chrome team.

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