When it comes to politics, topping the social media buzz charts doesn’t always mean you’re topping the polls, and nobody knows this better than Rick Perry. Social media monitoring platform Fizziology reports that Rick Perry is the most buzzed-about 2012 GOP candidate by a landslide, but he is also the candidate responsible for the largest share of negative buzz.
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Rick Perry’s latest campaign ad, ‘Strong,’ is spreading like wild fire and not for the right reasons. It is being touted as one of the most disliked YouTube videos of all time and has sparked backlash not only via political blogs but also in the form of spoofs on YouTube and Tumblr.
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.
Twitter users rushed to express their displeasure with the deal by the British Broadcasting Corp. and Sky Sports to air Formula 1 auto races, as only one-half of the events will now be on free TV, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of July 25-29.
