PEJ New Media Index: Google Dominates Twitter; Blogs Focus on Gay Rights
Google continued to account for the most news links shared via Twitter, while gay-rights issues topped the blogosphere, and the most-watched news and politics YouTube video was CBS News Online’s raw footage of the accident at Sea World in which animal trainer Dawn Brancheau was drowned by a killer whale, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of March 1-5.
A total of 13 percent of news links shared via Twitter involved Google, particularly a CNET report that the search-engine giant purchased Web-based photo editor Picnik and a CNET column by Stephen Shankland about his experiences with Google Buzz making him use Facebook more.
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