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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. | |
i will honestly miss him, he was a great musical artist..... | |
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. | |
your totally right | |
Sadly it did not kill Twitter. Good to know so many people care about his death though. | |
It's everywhere! Even in my country! | |
A fitting legacy. | |
I knew it was gonna be big, but breaking the internet is gonna be a hard one to top by any person. | |
not to sound disrespectful to a dead man, but I think he's just a freak who can't really sing | |
Yeah, even Sickipedia slowed down to a crawl and the database died. All those peeps looking for Michael Jackson jokes :L | |
True. Do you reckon he'll be remembered as "The King of Pop, Who also Broke the Internet"? No disrespect to the man. | |
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. | |
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) | |
... 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 | |
Raping little boys internet across the world from the grave rofl | |
Heheh... | |
The internet has a weakness! | |
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... | |
Nothing like freaking a good billion people out in your death. | |
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. | |
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. | |
Having Thriller in my head hour seven: | |
Even in death he pisses me off! | |
..he broke teh internetz o.O | |
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. | |
Achievement unlocked | |
Should be one of those real life achievements from that thread a few days ago 50G - You broke teh interwebz EDIT: Damn, ninja'd | |
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. | |
I got an achievement too! 15G - Stealth ninja | |
lol, god help us when someone REALLY popular dies. It'll probably cause every connected computer to explode or something. | |
I love it ^^
When Obama dies, planes will drop out of the sky | |
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. | |
Maybe not so much now, but in many ways, Jackson was *the* defining figure of the '80s. | |
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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