News consumers care about “links to related material” more than any other feature on news sites according to the Understanding the Participatory News Consumer report (by Kristen Purcell, Lee Rainie, Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel and Kenny Olmstead) published March 1, 2010 as part of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The ability to share [...]
Muck Rack tracks major news organizations on Twitter. Currently, they list journalists from 37 organizations. I recently examined the 3 most followed journalists from each organizations and found 27 of the 111 journalists are women, compared to 84 men. All one: In two organizations, the three most popular Twitter users were all female. In 17 organizations, [...]
According to Google, 77,400 web pages link to Twitter.com. You can find links to a particular web site — the USA Today site for example — by searching for Google for “link:usatoday.com“. Results for Twitter look like this: I ran that same kind of search for the top three U.S. newspapers (by circulation), and found 71,200 links to their sites. That’s 6,200 less than [...]
Last week, we saw that The Wall Street Journal’s main Twitter account was retweeted more “per capita” than the other four top newspaper web sites in the U.S. This week, I’ve compiled a list of 13 journalists, many of whom work for those newspaper sites, who were retweeted up to 5 times more than @WSJ. The number next to [...]
