Jun
29
Leading up to and following the announced death of Michael Jackson, internet traffic began to overload. The King of Pop’s death spun people around in an internet frenzy posting time lines, photos, tweeting, facebooking, socializing this and that to crash numerous sites. Some of the sites that had failed or that were on the verge of traffic overloads included Twitter, Google, CNN, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Facebook and AOL.
MJ was a man of historic figures including the sales volume of Thriller (the world’s best-selling album of all time), an outrageous debt of 400 million dollars, and the incredibly high volumes of internet traffic pertaining to his death. Although internet traffic was incredibly higher following the news of MJ’s cardiac arrest, internet traffic is always higher surrounding the death of celebrities. People tend to feed on the tragedy of others, especially celebrities. Immediately following the announcement of Farrah Fawcett and MJ’s death there had to be someone else. Celebrity tragedies emerge budding new members of the paparazzi. Rumors worked hard to bury other celebrities such as Jeff Goldblum and Harrison Ford. Jeff Goldblum was said to have died after falling off a cliff in New Zealand working on a film and Harrison Ford was said to have fallen off of a yacht. Why stop there? If you’re gonna make up rumors why not say 40 actors die in the same day? Let’s really try to break the internet. Let’s be really outlandish and come up with something creative. Let’s forfeit credibility for entertainment. Go TMZ for reporting the heart attack and death first! You beat out more so-called credible news sources by two hours who were talking about comas. What’s your secret?
The death of MJ has brought more internet flies buzzing to monitors than natural disasters or war stricken news killing thousands. It just takes one super star to get the world’s attention. I could only imagine the hot press media going frantically when John Lennon died. How big of a star do you have to be for people to gain interest? You must be a King!
Farewell Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon, and also infomercial star Billy Mays who was 50 as well. Let me know if I forgot anyone. Oh ya, Jeff Goldblum and Harrison Ford and Madonna and Michael Jordan and George Lucas and Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder and Muhammad Ali. Seriously though. They all fell off cliffs and yachts.
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