New Media Index: Bloggers Dwell on the Economy, While Apple Is the Fruit of the Twitterverse

The economy was top-of-mind for bloggers during the final week of 2010, while Apple was the apple of the Twitterverse, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was footage of a man who threw himself off the balcony of the Romanian Parliament, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Dec. 27-31.

A total of 31 percent of news links shared by bloggers concerned the economy, including a story from USA Today about the Bureau of Labor Statistics revising its method for measuring long-term unemployment, and The Washington Post reporting that more banks failed in the United States in 2010 than in any year since 1992.

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