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July 02, 2009

How Much Did Michael Jackson's Death Rock the Internet?...

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NY Times: How Much Did Michael Jackson Rock the Web

It found that there were 9.98 million queries for the terms “Michael” and “Jackson” across the top 25 search engines and news and social media sites in the week ended June 27. Compete said that was more than 24 times the number of queries for information using the terms “Iran” and “election” during the week before.

Previously: CNN: Jackson Dies, Almost Takes Internet with Him

Twitter crashed as users saw multiple “fail whales”—the illustrations the site uses as error messages—user FoieGrasie posting, “Irony: The protesters in Iran using Twitter as com are unable to get online because of all the posts of ‘Michael Jackson RIP.’ Well done.” The site’s status blog said that Twitter had had to temporarily disable its search results, saved searches and trend topics.



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