MJ: O legenda care face furori online

Stirea cu decesul lui Michael Jackson a blocat sau a adus noi recorduri de trafic multor site-uri, printre care si Google sau Yahoo.

tmz.com – The celebrity Web site TMZ.com. site broke the news of Jackson’s death at 5:20 p.m. Thursday.

ziarul LA Times – The Los Angeles Times website creaked beneath the weight of the story as well, with nearly 2.3 million page views in one hour, more traffic than during any single hour last Nov. 5, the site’s highest-traffic day.

pe twitter au fost peste 5000 de mesaje pe minut – Jackson dominated the discussion on Twitter, generating the most tweets per second since Barack Obama was elected president in November.
“We saw over twice the normal tweets per second the moment the story broke as people shared their grief and memories,” Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in an e-mail.

chiar si un site de analiza a traficului pe internet a sustinut faptul ca site-urile de stiri au fost cu 50% mai asaltate – Akamai’s Net Usage Index, which monitors global news consumption online, found that Web traffic to news sites increased by about 50 percent, peaking around 6:30 p.m.

motorul de cautare google a fost blocat, cautarile despre michael jackson fiind stopate si clasificate ca fiind atac (problema s-a rezolvat prin introducerea unui captcha [cuvant care trebuie introdus pentru a dovedi ca, cautarea este adevarata]) – So many people wanted to verify the early reports of Jackson’s death that the computers running Google’s news section interpreted the fusillade of “Michael Jackson” requests as an automated attack from about 5:40 p.m. through 6:15 p.m.

yahoo a obtinut un nou record unic de vizitatori – Yahoo is reporting record traffic too: “Yahoo! News set a record in unique visitors with 16.4 million UV’s in a day. Our previous record was on election day when we had 15.1 million visitors.Yahoo! News had 4 million visitors come to the site between 3-4 pm, setting an hourly record.”

youtube – On YouTube, traffic flowed to music videos of Jackson, while thousands posted videos of themselves sharing their thoughts on Jackson.

facebook – Others were using Facebook to organize vigils and celebrations of Jackson. One in San Francisco with nearly 50 confirmed guests hoped to recreated the “Thriller” dance.

canalul de stiri cnn online a fost intrerupt azi, probabil din cauza numarului prea mare de vizitatori (online-telespectatori)

mjr.ro – Chiar si site-ul oficial din romania (www.michaeljackson.ro) a fost luat cu asalt de fani:

Rezultatele cautarilor folosind motorul de caute google, raporteaza ca in ultimele 24 de ore s-au scris peste 2.806.108 de articole, respectiv in ultimele 12 ore 1.729.023, iar media de articole pe ora fiind de 5.848.