New Media Index: Bloggers Down on Obama, Tweeters Down on Apple iPhone 4
Bloggers were fixated on a poll in The Washington Post showing that confidence in President Barack Obama to make the right decision is falling, while Twitter users ripped into a rotten Apple, and the most-viewed news and politics video on YouTube was Paul the octopus correctly predicting Spain’s victory over the Netherlands in the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of July 12-16.
The poor poll results for Obama accounted for 20 percent of news links shared by bloggers, followed by: the heat wave on the East Coast, at 14 percent; the “panic button” on Facebook UK, which allows users aged 13-18 to report online abuse such as inappropriate sexual content, cyber-bullying, and hacking attempts to the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre and the social-networking site, at 13 percent; the passage of a...
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