Twitter users were fascinated by the launch of another social network, Google+, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of June 27-July 1.
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Online security, or the lack thereof, dominated Tweeted news links for the week of June 20-24, specifically the hacking of Dropbox and the handiwork of LulzSec, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
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10: CNBC.com Offers Marijuana & Money, April 20: a CNBC.com special report examining the marijuana industry in the United States from a business standpoint.
9: Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Twitter Guys’ Profile Actually About Ashton Kutcher, April 30, 2009: This oldie but goodie showed staying power, reporting that Twitter legend Ashton Kutcher profiled The Twitter Guys — Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and himself — for The 2009 Time 100.
8: Full Episodes of Conan O’Brien’s TBS Show to Stream Online, Nov. 4: Conan O’Brien‘s TeamCoco.com announced that full episodes of TBS’ Conan would be available online the day after they air on the cable channel.
7: Mythbusters‘ Kari Byron Talks New Media on the Morning Media Menu, Oct. 27: Kari Byron, one of the co-hosts of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters, was the guest on Morning Media Menu, discussing her new show for The Science Channel, Head Rush.
6: ESPN Taking Time Warner Cable Carriage Negotiations Online, July 20: Disney and ESPN launched a Web site and pages on social-networking sites to call attention to the carriage dispute between the sports network and the cable operator.
The war in Iraq was the subject of the most news links shared by bloggers during the week of Sept. 6-10, while a report on Mashable about The New York Times Co. chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. saying he expects to stop publishing a print edition of The New York Times in the future was the most-Tweeted news link, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was an episode of YouTube-based The Philip DeFranco Show, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
The ongoing conflict in Iraq accounted for 25 percent of news links shared via the blogosphere, and it was followed by: news about the White House of President Barack Obama, including rumors about chief of staff Rahm Emanuel leaving the administration and the Oval Office rug, at 22 percent; a story from the Los Angeles Times about the possibility that a school named for former Vice President Al Gore was built over toxic and contaminated soil, at 12 percent; two 2010 election stories from The Washington Post, at 11 percent; and the plan by the Rev. Terry Jones to burn the Koran on Sept. 11 at 10 percent.
Sulzberger’s vision of permanently stopping the presses accounted for 17 percent of news links shared via Twitter, and it was followed by: another offering from Mashable about abducted Japanese journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka using a captor’s cell phone to Tweet his location, at 15 percent; the Koran-burning controversy at 13 percent; several Google-related stories, including those on new search feature Google Instant, at 10 percent; and a report that Apple was lifting its ban on Flash apps for the iPhone, at 7 percent.
