Last night’s Video Music Awards brought all sorts of celebrities out to the red–I mean white–carpet, from the cast of Jersey Shore to the Jackass crew to Lady Gaga’s pals in the US Marines. Between all the wardrobe changes and performances, tweet volumes of the hottest celebs flashed across the stage screen, adding some extra entertainment and competition to the night. We were curious to compare top celeb tweet mentions to their mentions across top online news and blog outlets.
To see what celebrities were getting the most buzz the week prior to the VMAs, we dove into our index and pulled all the articles with “VMA” in their headlines. From there we parsed names of the top 10 most mentioned celebrities:







