New Media Index: Twitter Users Focus on Twitter’s Role in Debt Ceiling Agreement
The Aug. 2 agreement to raise the debt ceiling for the United States was the subject of the most shared links via Twitter and blogs, but the Twitterverse took a different approach, focusing on the role that Twitter itself played in the process, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Aug. 1-5.
The Aug. 2 agreement to raise the debt ceiling for the United States was the subject of the most shared links via Twitter and blogs, but the Twitterverse took a different approach, focusing on the role that Twitter itself played in the process, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Aug. 1-5.
Twitter’s effect on the legislative compromise was followed on the list of most-tweeted news links by: general news about the debt ceiling agreement; Justin Bieber tour dates in Mexico and South America; a satirical article from The Onion, “Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition”; and Google, particularly its new social network, Google+, reaching 25 million users.
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