Abstract
This paper aims to investigate the role of visual icons in the new journalistic storytelling that take place in social networks. The case study is the marches of May 12, 2012, on the first anniversary of the 15M movement, narrated in Twitter. The paper is part of previous studies that point to the role of visual icons as hubs of social networks. Through methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis it is concluded that Twitter is developing new journalistic visual storytelling, in which professional journalists and citizens converge. Videos have more viral than pictures and text, but the influence of the message depends less on its format than on the power of is content. Journalists and mainstream media are still very influential, but now share that influence with social media and more active citizens.
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