PEJ New Media Index: Google Buzz Buzzes Twitter
According to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Feb. 8-12, Google Buzz created quite the buzz on Twitter, while the blogosphere turned its attention to the decision by Warner Music to halt support for free music-streaming sites such as Spotify, We7, and Last.fm. The most-watched news and politics video on YouTube, meanwhile, was a Web ad by Senate candidate Carly Fiorina attacking Republican primary opponent Tom Campbell for being a “fiscal conservative in name only.”
More than 35 percent of news links shared via Twitter involved Google (its Super Bowl ad earlier in the week, Google Buzz later), followed by 14 percent on the Toyota recall, and 7 percent apiece on the snowstorm in the mid-Atlantic region, a drug bust that uncovered 30 pounds of marijuana from Mexico smuggled inside framed pictures of Jesus Christ, and protests marking the 31st anniversary...
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