Andy, one of our developers pictured in the previous post, sent me this article from CNN's Technology section and I thought it was interesting.I'll try to paraphrase - but basically, its title is "Jackon dies, almost take Internet with him". The article talks about how, in the matter of 1 hour after the announcement of Michael Jackson's death, the internet traffic skyrocketed. Not a surprise, but it shows the power, and vulnerability, of the tool from a news and social aspect.
Some fast facts due to the huge amount of traffic:
- Google News users had difficulty accessing search results
- TMZ's TechCrunch's online story broke
- CNN reported 5X traffic with about 20 million site views within the first hour
- Wikipedia was "temporarily overloaded"
- Twitter (not surprisingly) had outages
- LA Times suffered outages
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