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Making Online History

I gotta jump on the bandwagon and do a Michael Jackson post if only for posterity.

So, if you’re a hermit and didn’t hear, Michael Jackson died. The “cool” part? The online stats that came from this are staggering. Since I’m a sucker for random trivia, here’s a few of them:

  • – During Jackson’s memorial service, people changed their Facebook status at 6,000 per minute. During Obama’s Inauguration? 2,000 per minute.
  • – iTunes downloads skyrocketed, spiking 1,735%.
  • – 50,000 tweets in a single hour about Jackson. Oh yea, and twitter crashed the day he died.
  • – Google slowed for about an hour as people frantically searched for info.
  • – On Yahoo, their Jackson story received 800,000 clicks in 10 minutes. This made it Yahoo’s most-clicked story every. It also set daily and hourly visitor stats for Yahoo.
  • – Within the 24-hour period, 30% of tweets were about MJ. Farrah Fawcett and Iran? Less than 2%.

So there you have it folks. Want to make online history? Forget politics. Go with pop culture.

Posted by Vegasbab on July 19th, 2009 Posted in Interactive Media

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