New Media Index: Bin Laden’s Death Dominates Blogs, Twitter

The death of Osama Bin Laden accounted for 50 percent of news links shared via Twitter during the week of May 2-6, as well as a whopping 80 percent of news links on the blogosphere, while the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a tornado striking a terminal at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

The death of Osama Bin Laden accounted for 50 percent of news links shared via Twitter during the week of May 2-6, as well as a whopping 80 percent of news links on the blogosphere, while the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a tornado striking a terminal at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

Bin Laden’s death was followed on Twitter by: a now-obsolete Mashable post that Facebook was pondering an offer for Skype, at 10 percent; Sony’s response to the hacking of its Playstation network, at 5 percent; Mashable’s report that fashion retailer Express is selling its entire catalog on Facebook, at 4 percent; and another Mashable post on the addition of comedy clips to Internet radio service Pandora, also at 4 percent.

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