New Media Index: Users of Social Network Twitter Focus on Social Networks, Twitter

Four of the five most-shared news links via Twitter were very close to home, involving social media and Twitter itself, while the war in Afghanistan and the death of actor Kevin McCarthy tied for the top spot on the list of news links shared by bloggers, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a since-removed ad for Newsday‘s iPad app, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Sept.