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Michael Jackson's Death Crashes Twitter + Causes Google To Think It's Under Attack
Friday, June 26, 2009
The King of Pop died... and there was so much traffic that, according to the BBC:
Update: here's a great story that gives more details of this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1195651/How-Michael-Jacksons-death-shut-Twitter-overwhelmed-Google--killed-Jeff-Goldblum.html
- Traffic was so thick with people sharing news that Twitter crashed.
- Even Google, the search giant, believed it may have been under service attack.
Update: here's a great story that gives more details of this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1195651/How-Michael-Jacksons-death-shut-Twitter-overwhelmed-Google--killed-Jeff-Goldblum.html
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