…the death of Michael Jackson.
Yes everyone is talking about it and in fact on Twitter it is now considered old news. But in the 360innovate office we are all still in a bit of shock, having all grown up listening to his catchy pop songs it seems a bit weird to think he will no longer exist.
Anyway with my mind made up to write a Michael Jackson related post but still keep it relevant I can’t not 
mention the role the internet played in the surfacing of this tragic news.
Twitter received an influx in users using the website as it dawned on many people that the circulating rumours were in fact true, so many people were discussing the tragedy and trying to find out what was happening on the micro-blogging site that it crashed and within the hour of the news circulating Michael Jackson related topics dominated the top trends for the website. Just before the site crashed it is reported that “Michael Jackson” appeared in more than 66,500 Twitter updates and upon the news breaking it was reported by Twist that around 30% of Tweets mentioned the late star.
Similarly on Google the sharp increase of users searching for Michael Jackson caused the search engine giant to fear that it was under attack. The volume of users searching was so high that an error page started appearing telling users
your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application
Thus causing Google to fear that the search engine was under attack.
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Well its fair to say that whilst he was alive Michael Jackson caused a fair amount of hype both good and bad from his dangling babies antics to his distinctive dance routines, and now as he passes from this world I have to say that I am very pleased that his continuing to ruffle feathers… all be it blue Twitter shaped ones…
