New Media Index: Mixed Bag for Week of Feb. 1-5
According to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Feb. 1-5, three completely unrelated stories were the most-covered on Twitter, in the blogosphere, and on YouTube.
Gay rights, specifically Pope Benedict’s opposition to Britain’s proposed “Equality Bill,” accounted for 13 percent of news links tweeted. That was followed by the Apple iPad at 10 percent; Twitter itself at 9 percent, including the resignation via tweeted haiku by Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz; the Symbian operating system at 8 percent; and the recall of several Toyota automobiles, also at 8 percent.
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