Posts Tagged ‘sarah palin’

Twitter users sharing news links during the week of June 13-17 strayed from their usual focus on tech topics and turned to Mother Nature, while bloggers focused on the billions of dollars intended for Iraq’s post-war reconstruction that have gone missing, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a news report about Facebook users congregating in a Hamburg, Germany, neighborhood after a 16-year-old girl mistakenly invited every user on the social network to her birthday party, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

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Apple’s new iOS 5 operating system for its iPhone and iPad tablet was the apple of Twitter users’ eyes, accounting for 31 percent of Tweeted news links, while the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a local news program’s clip of Sarah Palin’s version of Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride, and the most shared news link by bloggers was a Los Angeles Times story about three federal judges in Atlanta suggesting that they might be ready to declare all or part of the health care law unconstitutional, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of June 6-10.

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The use of location-based mobile app foursquare by small businesses was the topic of the most news links shared via Twitter during the week of May 30-June 3, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index, while the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was footage of clashes between Catalan regional police and protesters in Barcelona’s Plaza Catalunya, and Sarah Palin’s “One Nation” bus tour was the topic of the most news links shared by bloggers.

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Facebook, Twitter and a re-launched website. Those are the tools Sarah Palin is relying on to get her name back in the 2012 presidential headlines. Which begs the question: can a political candidate regain her political mojo through social media alone?

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Political news travels fast — it can take more than a few New York Times articles to stay on top of the rumor mill. For news junkies, Twitter is great as an alternative source for journalism… But who should you follow?

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The political turmoil in Egypt accounted for 57 percent of news links shared by bloggers during the week of Jan. 31-Feb. 4, while TechCrunch’s account of the hacking of online dating site Plentyoffish was the most-Tweeted news link, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was surveillance footage of a drug catapult used near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

Egypt was trailed in the blogosphere by: Groundhog Day, at 12 percent, including an AP video of Punxsutawney Phil; Dana Milbank‘s pledge in The Washington Post to not mention Sarah Palin for the entire month of February, at 7 percent; a report from the BBC on a drone flown by militant Lebanese group Hezbollah over Israel, at 5 percent; and Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder‘s threat to considering legal action against the Washington City Paper for writing a critical story about him, at 4 percent.

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An op-ed piece in The Washington Post by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), which praised President Barack Obama for his Jan. 12 speech at the memorial service honoring those slain in the shootings in Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 8, was the most-shared news link by bloggers, while Apple once again topped the list of most-Tweeted news links, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was footage of flooding in Toowoomba, Australia, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Jan. 17-21.

McCain’s op-ed accounted for 17 percent of news links shared via the blogosphere, and it was followed by: video of a BBC interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, appearing for the second week in a row, at 16 percent; another Washington Post op-ed piece, this one by George Will, who wrote that Congress has bequeathed much of its lawmaking power to the presidency and other government agencies in recent years, at 15 percent; health care, at 14 percent; and the economy, at 8 percent.

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The WikiLeaks controversy only managed second-place finishes on the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index rankings of most shared news stories via blogs and Twitter for the week of Nov. 29-Dec. 3, trailing the death of actor Leslie Nielsen in the blogosphere and NASA’s discovery of a completely new life form in the Twitterverse. Meanwhile, the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was footage of an angry, handcuffed man yelling in Portuguese.

Nielsen’s passing accounted for 17 percent of bloggers’ shared news links, and WikiLeaks tallied 16 percent, followed by: a column in The Washington Post by George Will arguing against restricting children’s access to video games, at 12 percent; a Washington Post story about how federal stimulus money went to more sources than many people realized, at 11 percent; and another Washington Post op-ed by a George Washington University Law professor on why Transportation Safety Administration pat-downs and body scans are unconstitutional, at 9 percent.

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The new security measures implemented by the Transportation Security Administration dominated the list of news links shared by bloggers during the week of Nov. 22-26, while Mashable accounted for four of the five most-Tweeted news links, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a clip of a collision during an AC Milan soccer match, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

A total of 54 percent of news links shared by bloggers were related to the controversy over the TSA measures — don’t touch my junk, bro — and it was followed by: Formula 1 racing, at 18 percent; British police, at 13 percent; a column in The Washington Post by former President Jimmy Carter about how the United States should handle relations with North Korea, at 4 percent; and also at 4 percent, news that Velma Hart — the woman who gained national attention at a September forum for telling President Barack Obama that she was exhausted defending him — lost her job due to financial cutbacks at the nonprofit organization where she worked.

The TSA brouhaha was the only non-Mashable entry in the top five news links shared by Twitter, coming in fourth at 9 percent. The most-Tweeted link was a report from the social-media news blog about ways people can use social media to enhance events and conferences, at 16 percent. It was followed by: a list of iPhone camera accessories, at 13 percent; a report on Rupert Murdoch‘s The Daily iPad-only news publication, at 12 percent; and, in fifth place, at 7 percent, two Twitter stories — one on its analytics service, and the other an interview with creative director Doug Bowman.

The AC Milan crash was followed on the list of most-viewed news and politics videos on YouTube by: an animated poke at the TSA controversy by Taiwan-based Next Media Animation; pundits on Fox News Watch sharing jokes about Sarah Palin‘s new TV show during a commercial break; the Nov. 16 installment of The Philip DeFranco Show; and a video from comedy group Die Aussenseiter.

While one daughter of Sarah Palin was dancing with the (actual) stars, the other was reportedly using homophobic slurs towards classmates on Facebook.

TMZ reported Tuesday that the former Alaska governor’s 16-year-old daughter Willow Palin called her classmate “faggot” after he said her mother’s reality show was “failing so hard right now.”

Willow’s response: “Haha your so gay. I have no idea who you are, But what I’ve seen pictures of, your disgusting … My sister had a kid and is still hot.”

Bristol Palin joined in the online war as well with such jewels like, “You’re just running your mouth just to talk shit…”

TMZ included a poll asking readers to grade Sarah Palin’s child rearing skills; a majority has given the mama grizzly an F. Check out the original Facebook wall posts for yourself.