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Flunky  Posts: 110 Joined: 8 Aug 2008     | |
Master Archivist  Posts: 9225 Joined: 5 Mar 2009     | Interesting, this should happen to twitter more often. I was surprised by how early TMZ declared him dead, i almost wanted that to bite them on the ass. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 161 Joined: 18 Feb 2009     | i will honestly miss him, he was a great musical artist..... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1688 Joined: 19 Jul 2008    | Blimey. Thank god I found out while browsing the Escapist at god knows what in the morning. I guess I missed that slowing. Now to be smug. Still, breaking the itnernet is an impressive achievement. |
Beat Writer Posts: 161 Joined: 18 Feb 2009 |
your totally right |
BANNED  Posts: 11268 Joined: 3 Jan 2009     | Sadly it did not kill Twitter. Good to know so many people care about his death though. User was banned for: Why do Many Girls take Pictures of Themselves?. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1035 Joined: 24 May 2009    | It's everywhere! Even in my country! |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 54 Joined: 19 Dec 2008     | A fitting legacy. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 79 Joined: 19 Jun 2009   | I knew it was gonna be big, but breaking the internet is gonna be a hard one to top by any person. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 135 Joined: 1 Apr 2009  | not to sound disrespectful to a dead man, but I think he's just a freak who can't really sing |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1044 Joined: 31 Oct 2008   | Yeah, even Sickipedia slowed down to a crawl and the database died. All those peeps looking for Michael Jackson jokes :L |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2346 Joined: 9 Mar 2009    |
True. Do you reckon he'll be remembered as "The King of Pop, Who also Broke the Internet"? No disrespect to the man. |
On the Record  Posts: 5559 Joined: 14 Sep 2008   |
And, to people who didn't care for his music, as a child abuser and drug addict. I wouldn't be surprised if drugs stopped his heart, really. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1195 Joined: 19 Jan 2009     | It's called going out with a bang. "Michael Jackson paralyzed Twitter... AFTER he died! It's a sign of the second coming!" (My friend after seeing this article) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2768 Joined: 18 Sep 2007   | ... from beyond the grave! *cue Vincent Price* Bye, Michael. You were one really messed-up dude, but you provided a lot of people a lot of honest joy. RIP. -- Steve |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 780 Joined: 15 Jan 2009   | Raping little boys internet across the world from the grave rofl |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1752 Joined: 13 Feb 2009  | Heheh... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1444 Joined: 26 Mar 2008  | The internet has a weakness! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3390 Joined: 6 Nov 2008  | Yeah his Wiki page was broken yesterday and the internet was so slow. That's pretty crazy. It's good to know that he's still making the news. He will be missed. Of course right now I'm still in denial and having a hard time believing that Michael Jackson is dead... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4890 Joined: 22 Feb 2009    | Nothing like freaking a good billion people out in your death. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 675 Joined: 28 Oct 2008 |
how the hell can that ever be seen as not disrespectful? OT of course he did, he was a hero when he lived, now hes a good, old fashioned Legend. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1742 Joined: 5 Jun 2008    |
If you're trying not to be disrespectful you went the wrong way about it. ...Wish I could break the internet with my death. That's awesome. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 87 Joined: 8 Mar 2009 | Having Thriller in my head hour seven: |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3889 Joined: 7 Nov 2007  | Even in death he pisses me off! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1487 Joined: 4 Oct 2008 | ..he broke teh internetz o.O |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1159 Joined: 29 Jan 2008   | I know I am going to regret this. I'm going to regret it a lot. I shall venture to 4chan to find out what they think of this. If anyone could break the internet, I figured it would be them. Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 131 Joined: 23 Jun 2009   |
Achievement unlocked |
SUSPENDED  Posts: 2547 Joined: 19 Mar 2008  |
Should be one of those real life achievements from that thread a few days ago 50G - You broke teh interwebz EDIT: Damn, ninja'd User was suspended for: IM SO PISSED OFF AT LADS. (7 days) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2440 Joined: 11 Oct 2008   | That explains a lot. I was surfing through Google looking for pictures yesterday and it was crawling along slower than I'd ever seen it. |
Beat Writer Posts: 131 Joined: 23 Jun 2009 |
I got an achievement too! 15G - Stealth ninja |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 592 Joined: 8 Dec 2008   | lol, god help us when someone REALLY popular dies. It'll probably cause every connected computer to explode or something. |
SUSPENDED Posts: 2547 Joined: 19 Mar 2008 |
I love it ^^
When Obama dies, planes will drop out of the sky User was suspended for: IM SO PISSED OFF AT LADS. (7 days) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1879 Joined: 11 Jul 2008 | I sense a flurry of piss poor re-edited thriller videos showing up on youtube real soon... Apart from that, was anyone else unconvinced until the news broke on a 'real' site? Until the BBC solidly reported it, I wasn't going to believe it, there were tales of it being a hoax, and at that point the BBC had only gone as far as to say 'We have heard reports that MJ may have died from a cardiac arrest' as opposed to 'omg mj ded' from some other sites. I'll ask the Americans, do you prefer to wait until say, CNN cover a tale before fully taking it as fact? (CNN seem to have some respect as a brand outside USA, unlike say, FOX. By all means re-educate me if I'm wrong about CNN!) From what TMZ sounded like, it'd be like buying Heat magazine for my news. |
Games Editor  Posts: 4193 Joined: 20 Dec 2005     |
Maybe not so much now, but in many ways, Jackson was *the* defining figure of the '80s. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2952 Joined: 21 May 2009     | TMZ guessed it and got lucky. |
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Michael Jackson Breaks the Internet
Inquiries into Michael Jackson's death yesterday flooded news and search sites, causing Twitter to crash, Google to give errors, and severe slowdown across the Internet as a whole.
When the Escapist staff first read reports that the King of Pop had met his untimely demise, you'd better believe we hit the virtual Google streets, performing multiple searches in an attempt to verify TMZ's initial post. As it turns out, we weren't the only ones.
Once the mass public caught word of the story, Google, AOL, CNN, and other sites reported the Web slowing down to a sickly crawl. The search engine titan, Google, initially believed they were under attack: The sheer number of people querying the star's death caused many of them to receive an error page informing them that "your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application."
Twitter's servers buckled and collapsed under the weight of thousands of people tweeting the breaking news; before the servers died, they noted that nearly 66,500 people had mentioned "Michael Jackson" in their latest tweets. By Thursday afternoon, the number of Twitter posts about the King of Pop had reached 100,000 per hour.
TMZ is credited with being the first to post the news on Michael's death. They've taken a break from their coverage of celebrities' receding hairlines and nipple slips to give us constant breaking news of any and all MJ news, including Corey Feldman's homage and Flavor Flav's rejected condolences.
Source: BBC
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