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Michael Jackson's Death News Hits the Web Hard

by Tim Stevens on June 26, 2009 at 07:53 AM

Michael Jackson's Death News Hits the Web HardThe King of Pop is dead, but if the flood of news covering the entirety of the Internet overnight is any indication, his legacy will live on for quite some time. It was shocking and unexpected news, so, of course, folks were quick to let everyone know, usually through online sites like Twitter. In fact, so many people were logging on to see whether this sad news was for real yesterday that many major news sites were twice as slow to load up as a result of all the traffic, Web-tracking service Keynote Systems told the Chicago Tribune.

Topics relating to Michael Jackson quickly became the top trends on microblogging site Twitter, while various Jackson-related searches bubbled up on Google's top 100 search trends as well. Yesterday, for example, the number of Michael Jackson tweets topped 100,000 per hour, according to social-media-tracking firm Trendrr.

By now the word has spread and there's no doubt about its veracity, so all that's left is for the Web to be flooded again -- this time by weepy retrospective collages and "In Remembrance Of" videos on YouTube and its various competitors. We'll be watching them too, and likely getting a little misty-eyed. [From: chicagotribune.com]

Tags: death, google, michaeljackson, music, top, twitter, youtube

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