Today is a really bad day for people named Generation X… two lost icons: Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.
The truth is… that because of Michael Jackson’s death – everybody forgot about one of the Charlie’s angels. I’m not surprised of that fact. The other thing is really interesting – especially for people interested in IT…

Michael Jackson’s death has caused a massive worldwide surge in online traffic. Everybody were sad, everybody wanted to read about it, everybody wanted to search as many informations as they could.
Blogs, social networking sites, Twitter, Facebook, AOL, Yahoo, Sky News Online… even Google had lots of troubles with that.

Facebook

Facebook reported that the number of status updates during the hour after Jackson’s death was triple the average.

Twitter

Nine out of the ten most popular topics discussed on Twitter were about Jackson, with many celebrities choosing the site to express their condolences.

Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter) said: “the biggest jump in tweets per second since the US presidential election”.

Sky News Online

More than twenty times the average number of visitors logged on to Sky News Online last night.

Google

So many people wanted to verify the early reports of Jackson’s death that the computers powering Google News interpreted the surge of ‘Michael Jackson’ requests as an automated attack.

Today was a seminal moment in Internet history. We’ve never seen anything like it in terms of scope or depth.

AOL on the impact of Michael Jackson’s death

Now… try to guess what dominates in all ‘top search’ sections in the world. I will try to help you:

• Yahoo (4 keywords about Michael Jackson in top6)
• Google (3 keywords about MJ in top5)
• Bing (2 keywords about MJ in top4 + MJ is everywhere in xRank)