Michael Jackson’s Death Zonked Internet
- Scribbled on June 26th, 2009 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Industry News
Those of you who had problems with Facebook and Twitter yesterday, it was due to Michael Jackson, whose death caused an unprecedented buzz on the interwebs.
News of Michael Jackson’s death broke on the Internet late Thursday afternoon. Not long after that, the Internet broke too. Twitter crashed, as did Michael Jackson’s Wikipedia entry. Facebook lumbered under countless Michael Jackson video uploads retrieved from an over-accessed YouTube, and both ground to a halt.
Everything else online, including the historic battle over democracy currently being raged in Iran, paled as people clambered onto social networks to confirm what they were hearing was really true.
Eventually, the World Wide Web recovered, Jackson traffic cranked into gear, and per their predictable nature, Internet cranks made their feelings known.
Were you online when you first heard Jackson (might have) died? What did you do?
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