New Media Index: Twitter Users Captivated by Google+
Twitter users were fascinated by the launch of another social network, Google+, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of June 27-July 1.
Twitter users were fascinated by the launch of another social network, Google+, while the declaration by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) of her candidacy in the 2012 presidential election was the topic of the most news links shared by bloggers, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was footage of an alleged unidentified flying object over London, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of June 27-July 1.
Google+ accounted for 35 percent of tweeted news links for the week, and it was followed by: a handful of global warming stories from British publications, at 11 percent; the British government hacking an al Qaeda website and replacing bomb-making instructions with cupcake recipes, at 9 percent; also at 9 percent, the British economy; and Bachmann’s husband receiving $137,000 in Medicaid funds, at 6 percent.
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