Michael Jackson dies and see what happens

Michael Jackson died on June 25 and the internet suffered a number of slowdowns as people the world over rushed to verify accounts of Michael Jackson’s death.

Google was not the only company overwhelmed by the public’s clamour for information.

The microblogging service Twitter crashed with the sheer volume of people using the service.
Queries about the star soon rocketed to the top of its updates and searches. But the amount of traffic meant it suffered one of its well-known outages.

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On June 26, Michael Jackson was ranked on seven of the top ten trending topics on Twitter through the phrases — “thriller”, “pop”, “#Michael Jackson”, “P Michael Jackson”, “MJ’s”, “RIP MJ”, and “MTV”, which are tweets from users mostly saying that MTV is playing Michael Jackson videos.

Early reports of Mr Jackson’s death and the confusion surrounding it caused a rash of changes and corrections to be made on his Wikipedia page as editors tried to keep up with events and the number of people trying to update the page.

TMZ, the popular celebrity gossip site that broke the story following a tip-off that a paramedic had visited the singers home also crashed.

There was a domino effect as users then fled to other sites. Hollywood gossip writer Perez Hilton’s site was among those to flame out.

Michael Jackson’s death sent U.S. Internet users to news sites and the traffic heated up network traffic. as evidence in these 2 images.
akamaitraffic (Credit: Akamai)

Keynote Systems reported that its monitoring showed performance problems for the web sites of AOL, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and Yahoo.
Beginning at 2.30PM Pacific “the average speed for downloading news sites doubled from less than four seconds to almost nine seconds,” said Shawn White, Keynote’s director of external operations.

So, and what could you see more happening on June 26th: