The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards dominated Twitter and YouTube in the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Aug. 29-Sept. 2, while bloggers focused on a much more serious event in Hurricane Irene.
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Twitter is great for generating buzz, but sometimes that buzz isn’t all that constructive. As the east coast of the United States prepares for Hurricane Irene this weekend, tips on how to handle weather emergencies are appreciated by all audiences. Thankfully, there are a lot of Twitter users who are skilled at giving advice, whether it be on how to deal with flooding or how to maintain perspective when we don’t even know how badly the storm will affect different areas. Here, then, are the top 10 tweets about Hurricane Irene that are actually useful. Read more
