New Media Index: Mashable Infographic Is Most-Tweeted; Bloggers Eye Steve Jobs Biography
An infographic from Mashable, The Winners & Losers of Social Networking, was the most-Tweeted news link during the week of April 11-15, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index, while the list of news links shared by bloggers was topped by the first authorized biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube, for the second consecutive week, was chaos during a soccer match in Egypt April 2.
An infographic from Mashable, The Winners & Losers of Social Networking, was the most-Tweeted news link during the week of April 11-15, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index, while the list of news links shared by bloggers was topped by the first authorized biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube, for the second consecutive week, was chaos during a soccer match in Egypt April 2.
The Mashable infographic accounted for 7 percent of news links shared via Twitter, and it was followed by: two other items, also with 7 percent apiece — the Jobs biography, and a TechCrunch post on PayPal cofounder Peter Theil’s thoughts on higher education; the post-earthquake crisis in Japan, at 6 percent; and a Mashable item about social media and journalism, at 5 percent.
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