Jackson Death Swamps Twitter
Michael Jackson’s death Thursday caused Twitter traffic to double, forcing the micro-blogging service to temporarily suspend home page searches. The deluge of 140-character ‘tweets’ surrounding the pop star’s death surpassed Twitter’s previous high-water mark, the election of U.S

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jtornews (Jeanette Torres) : July surpassed June as the deadliest month for US troops in Afghanistan since the war started 9 years ago, with a death toll of at least 66.. Updated : 2010-07-30T18:41:54Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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Ohio_Health (OhioHealth) : In '07,unintentional drug poisoning surpassed motor vehicle crashes as leading cause of injury death in OH, http://bit.ly/bhkd72 #fb
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