Article: Apple, Microsoft top social-media kingpins; Fox, AT&T, Dannon round out top five in analysis of Megabrands.(NEWS)

Byline: JACK NEFF

THE MAC VS. PC war hasn't just played out on TV. It's also the biggest brand battle in social media.

For the month ended Sept. 25, Apple and Microsoft finished in the top two spots of the Social Radar Sentiment Index, a social-media analysis of Advertising Age's 200 Megabrands by Infegy. The firm tracks more than 20 million web pages, including all the leading social-media sites, and bases its index on comment volume, percentage of positive mentions and percentage of overall brand mentions within social-media that showed signs of sentiment.

Apple beat Microsoft handily in the weighted index, largely on the basis of its ...

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