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| Jackson Dies, Almost Takes Internet With Him by kosovo(m): 4:52am On Jun 27, 2009 |
How many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it's just one -- if that one is Michael Jackson. Jackson's death caused Twitter outages, as portrayed by Raul Orozco in this take on Twitter's fail whale 1 of 3 The biggest showbiz story of the year saw the troubled star take a good slice of the Internet with him, as the ripples caused by the news of his death swept around the globe. "Between approximately 2:40 p.m. PDT and 3:15 p.m. PDT today, some Google News users experienced difficulty accessing search results for queries related to Michael Jackson," a Google spokesman told CNET, which also reported that Google News users complained that the service was inaccessible for a time. At its peak, Google Trends rated the Jackson story as "volcanic." As sites fell, users raced to other sites: TechCrunch reported that TMZ, which broke the story, had several outages; users then switched to Perez Hilton's blog, which also struggled to deal with the requests it received. CNN reported a fivefold rise in traffic and visitors in just over an hour, receiving 20 million page views in the hour the story broke. 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. Wikipedia saw a flurry of activity, with close to 500 edits made to Jackson's entry in less than 24 hours. CNET reported that by 3:15 p.m. PT, Wikipedia seemed to be "temporarily overloaded." FULL STORYclick here |
| Re: Jackson Dies, Almost Takes Internet With Him by tpiah: 4:28pm On Jun 27, 2009 |
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| Re: Jackson Dies, Almost Takes Internet With Him by iice(f): 7:11pm On Jun 27, 2009 |
Sorry but lol |
| Re: Jackson Dies, Almost Takes Internet With Him by cooljoe(m): 8:23pm On Jun 27, 2009 |
Cocoa-cola is possibly the only brand or name more popular than Micheal Jackson. |
| Re: Jackson Dies, Almost Takes Internet With Him by Horus(m): 8:31pm On Jun 27, 2009 |
cooljoe: But Michael Jackson have more pages result on Google (have a look on Google) So who is more popular now? Michael Jackson: 76,500,000 pages Coca Cola: 48,000,000 pages |
| Re: Jackson Dies, Almost Takes Internet With Him by spikedcylinder: 10:21am On Jun 29, 2009 |
It has been discussed but can continue to be discussed on these threads: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-288713.0.html https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-288741.0.html |
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