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Michael Jackson Death Brings Down Twitter

Friday June 26, 2009
Twitter Overload
Image from Twitter

For a short time last night the news of Michael Jackson's death brought down Twitter. Now I can't be 100% sure that was the reason, it could have been a coincidence. But it sure seems like a big coincidence to me.

With Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett dying at almost the same time, the Internet was probably full of people trying to find out what happened to both of them. Since Ed McMahon just dies yesterday, the Internet was still trying to recover from that.

When the King of Pop, Michael Jackson died, very unexpectedly I might add, the whole world took notice. That's when Twitter passed out, only temporarily though. It recovered quickly and is back to it's fine self today.

Visit Michael Jackson's own Twitter fan site or choose your favorite Michael Jackson fan site on Facebook.

Comments
June 26, 2009 at 12:46 pm
(1) Mikes says:

Twitter always does that though. No surprise!

July 3, 2009 at 12:38 pm
(2) personalweb says:

It’s been confirmed. Twitter and a whole bunch of other sites, including some news sites, all went down when this news hit.

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