Jackson Death Swamps Twitter

June 26th, 2009 admin

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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