New Media Index: Twitter Users Focus on Small Businesses Using foursquare
The use of location-based mobile app foursquare by small businesses was the topic of the most news links shared via Twitter during the week of May 30-June 3, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index, while the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was footage of clashes between Catalan regional police and protesters in Barcelona’s Plaza Catalunya, and Sarah Palin’s “One Nation” bus tour was the topic of the most news links shared by bloggers.
The use of location-based mobile app foursquare by small businesses was the topic of the most news links shared via Twitter during the week of May 30-June 3, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index, while the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was footage of clashes between Catalan regional police and protesters in Barcelona’s Plaza Catalunya, and Sarah Palin’s “One Nation” bus tour was the topic of the most news links shared by bloggers.
Small businesses using foursquare checked in with 16 percent of Tweeted news links, followed by: global warming, at 11 percent; a warning from Oxfam, an international confederation of organizations fighting poverty, that food prices could rise by more than 120 percent in the next 20 years, due in part to global warming, at 9 percent; an inboxQ survey of Twitter users showing that 64 percent of them were...
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