New Media Index: Bloggers Mourn Elizabeth Taylor
The March 23 death of legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor dominated news links shared by bloggers for the week of March 21-25, while AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile accounted for the most Tweeted news links.
The March 23 death of legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor dominated news links shared by bloggers for the week of March 21-25, while AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile accounted for the most Tweeted news links, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was tsunami footage from Miyako City, Japan, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
Taylor’s passing accounted for 33 percent of news links shared via the blogosphere, and it was followed by: the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, at 25 percent; the conflict in Libya, at 18 percent; Kelly Gneiting, a 400-pound former sumo wrestler who completed the Los Angeles Marathon in just under 10 hours, at 10 percent; and a BBC travelogue video about the Ukraine, at 3 percent.
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