New Media Index: Tweeters Embrace Mother Nature
Twitter users sharing news links during the week of June 13-17 strayed from their usual focus on tech topics and turned to Mother Nature, while bloggers focused on the billions of dollars intended for Iraq's post-war reconstruction that have gone missing, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a news report about Facebook users congregating in a Hamburg, Germany, neighborhood after a 16-year-old girl mistakenly invited every user on the social network to her birthday party, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
Twitter users sharing news links during the week of June 13-17 strayed from their usual focus on tech topics and turned to Mother Nature, while bloggers focused on the billions of dollars intended for Iraq’s post-war reconstruction that have gone missing, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a news report about Facebook users congregating in a Hamburg, Germany, neighborhood after a 16-year-old girl mistakenly invited every user on the social network to her birthday party, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
A live feed of the lunar eclipse from Wired was the most-tweeted news link, at 17 percent, and it was followed by: global warming, at 14 percent; unrest in Bahrain, at 12 percent; Facebook, at 9 percent; and a mirror.co.uk
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