PEJ: Earthquake in Haiti Dominates Blogs, Social Media
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released its latest New Media Index for the week of Jan. 11-15, and to no one’s surprise, the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti Jan. 13 dominated blogs and social-media sites.
The PEJ said 43% of news links included in blogs that week were Haiti-related, and the figure jumped to 82% after the earthquake actually occurred, covering Thursday and Friday.
The study divided Twitter into two different categories of tweets: those that shared news links, and those that encouraged support of charitable organizations helping Haiti with its recovery.
As far as news links, they were contained in 15% of tweets for the entire week and 36% Wednesday and Thursday.
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