The Day The Net Stood Still

Michael Jackson’s death  did more than break millions of hearts, he also turned the Internet upside down with website crashes and traffic overload… talk about a defining moment in Internet history!

Here’s what happened:

• Google had a HUGE surge in traffic. As millions of people were searching for “Michael Jackson”, they thought it was a hacker attack and they blocked all these queries!
• Twitter crashed after experiencing a huge surge of Twitter updates.
• Wikipedia crashed as well from the volume of search queries.
• Facebook experienced more than three times the feed updates.
• AOL Instant messenger completely collapsed for 40 minutes as well…

Even Amazon and iTunes had a huge surge in sales as a result of the death of the King Of Pop. (Same situation offline – in our local shopping malls… wonder why no one bought those records when he was still alive.)

R.I.P MJ…