When Michael Jackson died on June 25th, 2009, the majority of online users didn’t turn to Google to find the latest news, they went to the microblogging site Twitter.
News of the tweets about Michael Jackson were announced in our office–via our appointed company tweeter–I then, much like the majority of my co-workers, went immediately to Facebook to update my status, specifically to ” Jackson 4 :’( “.
But where did the rest of the online world go to learn and interact about Michael Jackson’s death? Here’s how the big guys stacked up, assuming everyone’s downtime was about equal:
