Most notable were the Occupy Wall Street protests, of which thousands of clips were posted on the video sharing site.And on social media, it was tech meets tech meets tech, with sites abuzz with talk of the new iPhone followed by the tragic death of Apple founder Steve Jobs, changes to Facebook and the announcement that the beta version of Google+ is open for all to use. The Pew Research Center’s New Media Index noted an interesting technological dissonance among bloggers - excitement in the build-up to the new Apple release (which turned out to be largely a let-down), juxtaposed with dissatisfaction about changes to both Facebook and Netflix.
On blogs, the new iPhone was the top subject, followed by Netflix and Google+, while on Twitter, Facebook changes were getting the most tweets, followed by the controversial execution of Troy Davis in Georgia and then Google+.Back in Israel, talk of the mass social protests which marked the summer had largely calmed on Twitter, according to Trendsmap.com. In fact, the top trend in Tel Aviv was #nobel, after Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. There was far more Twitter activity in the Jerusalem and Hebron areas than in Gush Dan this week, according to the real-time trend mapping site.From news sites to blogs, tweets to videos, The Numbers Crunch is a biweekly column which zooms out and brings you the big picture online, from Israel, the Middle East and around the world, and poll results from JPost.com. If you have stats to share, e-mail elana@jpost.comThe writer is the Internet desk manager at The Jerusalem Post
