New Media Index: Bloggers Focus on 2011 Budget, Tweeters Talk Facebook

Bloggers were very budget-conscious during the week of Feb. 28-March 4, while Twitter users were focused on that other social-networking site, Facebook, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was TV New Zealand footage of the aftermath of the Feb. 21 earthquake in Christchurch, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism New Media Index.

News links about the budget accounted for 37 percent of those shared via the blogosphere, followed by: a tie for second place between the death of the last remaining American World War I veteran, Frank W.

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