As I write this post websites across the world are facing spiked up traffic and Internet Usage. Fans are pouring in with RIP messages and communities are being flooded with them. Twitter is experiencing over 7000 tweets per minute. Facebook saw a frenzy of activity, too. The number of status updates during the hour after the Jackson news emerged was triple the average. Bloggers are uploading Jackson related content which saw a 300% increase. Many people are changing their profile to 'RIP...'.
Traffic to the leading online news sites throughout North America was at least 20% above average, according to Akamai’s Net Usage Index, which monitors online news consumption around the world.
The intense interest among Web users was evident on sites that track which terms are most popular among users. Phrases such as “Rip MJ,” “King of Pop” and “Thriller” were among the most frequently used on Twitter, and on Google.com, “Michael Jackson died” became the most popular query. Consumer Psyche expects the King of Pop to break the all time high record of 8,572,042 hits with the occasion being Barack Obama's victorious historic presidential election. The stats are from Akamai.
Few lines from Thriller...
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller
2 comments:
Michael Jackson won many hearts and personified the impossible. He changed the very psyche of not just the kind of music he was making, but also the psyche of the listening audience. Nothing compared to him.
He was just this incredible perfection that god could have possibly created in his mercy. His body moved like a wound up toy machine. He was a stupefying dancer.
An exceptional artist has gone. Someone that created an almost outer world experience for all of us with his art. We will miss him and his art, but his memories and his music will always be with us.
May his soul rest in peace.
Well out Kunal.. MJ RIP
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