New Media Index: Steve Jobs’ Resignation from Apple Was the Talk of Twitter

The announcement that Steve Jobs was resigning as CEO of Apple was, by far, the subject of the most news links shared via Twitter during the week of Aug. 22-26, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

The announcement that Steve Jobs was resigning as CEO of Apple was, by far, the subject of the most news links shared via Twitter during the week of Aug. 22-26, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

Meanwhile, the most-shared news and politics video on YouTube was footage of a brawl during a Georgetown basketball exhibition in Beijing, and the most news links shared by bloggers focused on the $4 trillion increase in the national debt.

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