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Michael Jackson Tops the Charts on Twitter
Update | 11:27 p.m. Comment from Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter included below.
On Thursday, the unexpected news of Michael Jackson’s death rocked Twitter as fans of the pop music star sought the latest information and posted their reactions to the news.
One Twitterer by the name of toomarvelous wrote: “I don’t recall where I was when Buddy Holly died. But I’ll recall where I was when Michael Jackson died. I was on Twitter.” Another Twitter member, by the name of amorril, posted a message about Mr. Jackson’s period singing in a band with his older siblings, writing: “I remember listening to my Jacksons 5 album and loving them.” Hundreds of other users echoed short messages of grief at the news by simply posting the phrase “RIP MJ.”
Shortly after TMZ, a news entertainment site, published a report around 5 p.m. stating that Mr. Jackson had died after suffering a heart attack, thousands of messages expressing disbelief, grief and remembrances flooded the Twitter microblogging service, causing the site to load more slowly than usual and crash multiple times.
Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, tweeted that
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Michael Jackson death a landmark event for Web
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Pop star Michael Jackson's death is being seen as a watershed event for the Internet with a website, TMZ.com, scooping "old media" and millions around the world finding out about it online.
TMZ, a joint venture of Time Warner's Web portal AOL and Telepictures Productions, left more established media outlets in its dust, publishing the first reports on both Jackson's hospitalization and on his death.
News of the sudden demise of the "King of Pop" rocketed around the Web at cyberspeed based solely on the TMZ reports, spread by posts on micro-blogging service Twitter, Facebook status updates, instant messages and emails.
"Increasingly, people are turning to Twitter and social media, Facebook in a big way, to just talk and share ideas and feel that they're connected to other people in moments of joy and crisis," said Sree Sreenivasan, dean of student affairs and new media professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Other media outlets eventually confirmed the TMZ reports and Web surfers around the globe turned to their favorite websites for news or to YouTube to watch Michael Jackson videos or post their own tributes.
"Michael Jackson's death was clearly a seminal event," Yahoo! said.
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