Hurricane Sandy: the most tweeted pictures

Dramatic images of hurricane Sandy have made it into the news and have been shared via social media. Jean Burgess, Farida Vis and Axel Bruns have examined the top 50 most tweeted images and here is a selection of them
  
  


Water streaming into ground zero tweeted by @passantino
This image of water streaming into ground zero appears in the list of top tweeted images three times. Ranked third is the tweet by @passantino with 1,369 retweets
Photograph: AP
Photograph: http://twitter.com/passantino/status/263091522503856128/photo/1
Fake image of shark in front yard
This fake image of a shark in a front yard appears in the list of top tweeted images seven times. Ranked fourth is the tweet by @iMuglerGaga with 1,260 retweets
Photograph: Twitter
Photograph: http://twitter.com/iMuglerGaga/status/263037593095110657/photo/1
Dark Manhattan skyline tweeted by @ronniejoice
This image of a dark Manhattan skyline is the fifth most tweeted photograph. Tweeted by @ronniejoice, it has been shared 1,246 times
Photograph: Twitter
Photograph: http://twitter.com/ronniejoice/status/263090739678961666/photo/1
Water rushing into Hoboken Path station
This image of water rushing into Hoboken Path station appears in the list of top tweeted images twice. @PANYNJ received 1,132 retweets
Photograph: Twitter
Photograph: http://twitter.com/PANYNJ/status/263089494805327872/photo/1
Lower Manhattan submerged
This image of lower Manhattan submerged appears in the list of top tweeted images twice. Ranked seventh is the tweet by @HC_Sandy with 853 retweets
Photograph: Twitter
Photograph: http://twitter.com/HC_Sandy/status/263066849753853953/photo/1
NYPD under water on East 8th St
This image of the NYPD under water on East 8th St appears in the list of top tweeted images twice. Ranked ninth is the tweet by @GoogleFacts with 513 retweets
Photograph: David Schulze
Photograph: http://twitter.com/GoogleFacts/status/263089431035142148/photo/1
Brooklyn Bridge Park submerged
This image of Brooklyn Bridge Park submerged appears in the list of top tweeted images twice. At eleventh place is @GoogleFacts with 471 retweets
Photograph: Twitter
Photograph: http://twitter.com/GoogleFacts/status/263079316911423488/photo/1
Spoof - Fake image mashup
This spoof image mashup of hurrican Sandy hitting Manhattan is in the list of top tweeted images twice. Ranked at twelfth place is the tweet by @joshgroban with 382 retweets
Photograph: Twitter
Photograph: http://twitter.com/joshgroban/status/263069162237227008/photo/1
Manhattan skyline, partial blackout
This image of the Manhattan skyline in partial blackout is the fifteenth most tweeted photograph in the list. ABC News anchor @DianeSawyer was retweeted 323 times
Photograph: Nick Summers
Photograph: https://twitter.com/DianeSawyer/status/263086010135633920/photo/1
Partial building collapse, Manhattan
This image of a partial building collapse in Manhattan is the seventeenth most tweeted on the list. @bleynyc received 277 retweets.
Photograph: Twitter
Photograph: https://twitter.com/bleynyc/status/263050735632142337/photo/1
Only light is 1WTC
This image by Reuters columnist Anthony De Rosa is the eighteenth most tweeted image, it has received 276 retweets
Photograph: Twitter
Photograph: https://twitter.com/AntDeRosa/status/263078534883471360/photo/1
Coney Island under water
This image of Coney Island under water is ranked nineteenth most tweeted image on the list of most shared. @NEnglandWx has received 267 retweets
Photograph: Twitter
Photograph: http://twitter.com/NEnglandWx/status/263071440050466817/photo/1
Dark Manhattan skyline, some lights
This image of a dark Manhattan skyline with some lights appears twice on the list of most tweeted photographs. @GoogleFacts are ranked at twentieth place with 259 retweets
Photograph: Simon Huck
Photograph: https://twitter.com/GoogleFacts/status/263082259576389632/photo/1
Highway under water
This image of a highway under water appears at 21st place on the list. The tweet by @LukeKerrDineen has been shared 243 times
Photograph: Twitter
Photograph: http://twitter.com/LukeKerrDineen/status/263085004328951808/photo/1
14th and Ave C submerged
This image of appears at 32nd place in the list of top tweeted images. @carloswhitt has had 158 retweets
Photograph: Twitter
Photograph: https://twitter.com/carloswhitt/status/263062002254110720/photo/1
 

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