Calls for Gun Reform Dominated Twitter Following Newtown Shooting

Calls for gun reform have "dominated" the Twitter conversation about last week's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Twenty-eight percent of Twitter posts about Newtown from Dec. 14 through Dec. 17 included a stance on gun control laws. The majority of tweets, 64%, called for stricter gun control laws. Twenty-one percent of those tweets expressed opposition to new laws, while 14% were neutral, according to Pew.

Tweets expressing sympathy for the victims and their loved ones was the next most popular category in the days after the shootings, at 25%. Straight news reports made up 13%…
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