Miley's Twerking Dominates YouTube

MTV enjoys post-VMA surge in last week's Web series ranking

Miley Cyrus' twerking episode sure got the world's attention, with everyone from Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski to The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan. The racy—some would say sexy, some would say desperate—performance lit up YouTube last week, accounting for five of the top 10 slots on VideoWatch's Web series ranker, according to data from VidIQ.

It's clear the now infamous dance with Robin Thicke had a long tail. And it caused more buzz for the Video Music Awards than the show has seen in years.

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