Michael Jackson has died...cardiac arrest

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Originally Posted by bungalowbill357

Never heard that before, it's probably just you.

No, actually, it does seem to happen a lot in 3's.



I was really shocked. My husband called me from work and told me and I thought he was just joking so I went and turned on the news and wow, I was surprised.


The sad part is that a lot of people seem to be celebrating (in other forums) and it's disgusting to see people react like that. You don't have to like him or his music in any way, shape or form but he did a lot for music and inspired tons of people. No matter how different he was and how strange his life turned out to be, it's still not cool to go laughing and making fun of someone and saying how glad you are that they are dead.

[Janszoon]

Hey, did any of you read about how Michael Jackson's death has been screwing up the internet? Crazy stuff (full article here):

Originally Posted by cnn

"Between approximately 2:40 p.m. PDT and 3:15 p.m. PDT today, some Google News users experienced difficulty accessing search results for queries related to Michael Jackson," a Google spokesman told CNET, which also reported that Google News users complained that the service was inaccessible for a time. At its peak, Google Trends rated the Jackson story as "volcanic."

As sites fell, users raced to other sites: TechCrunch reported that TMZ, which broke the story, had several outages; users then switched to Perez Hilton's blog, which also struggled to deal with the requests it received.

CNN reported a fivefold rise in traffic and visitors in just over an hour, receiving 20 million page views in the hour the story broke.

Twitter crashed as users saw multiple "fail whales" -- the illustrations the site uses as error messages -- user FoieGrasie posting, "Irony: The protesters in Iran using twitter as com are unable to get online because of all the posts of 'Michael Jackson RIP.' Well done." The site's status blog said that Twitter had had to temporarily disable its search results, saved searches and trend topics.

Wikipedia saw a flurry of activity, with close to 500 edits made to Jackson's entry in less than 24 hours. CNET reported that by 3:15pm PDT, Wikipedia seemed to be "temporarily overloaded."

[PinkCigarette]

Wow, that's weird.....


Did anyone hear that rumour about Jeff Goldblum being dead? A rep confirmed he wasn't but I wonder how the hell that one got started yesterday.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by Patton

Wow, that's weird.....


Did anyone hear that rumour about Jeff Goldblum being dead? A rep confirmed he wasn't but I wonder how the hell that one got started yesterday.

It's probably because celebrities always die in fives.

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Hey, did any of you read about how Michael Jackson's death has been screwing up the internet? Crazy stuff (full article here):

Damn, not even the nip-slip at the super bowl was that big. And that was huge online. I know I was trying to get onb LA Times and it wouldn't load. I thought I was one of the first people to hear about it. Well before TMZ promounced him to be dead.

[Mirrorball95]

Yeah man i got in last night and saw it on tv and came on here thinking I would be the first to spill the beans but was somewhat 20 mins beaten to it lol.

[bungalow]

Originally Posted by Patton

No, actually, it does seem to happen a lot in 3's.



I was really shocked. My husband called me from work and told me and I thought he was just joking so I went and turned on the news and wow, I was surprised.


The sad part is that a lot of people seem to be celebrating (in other forums) and it's disgusting to see people react like that. You don't have to like him or his music in any way, shape or form but he did a lot for music and inspired tons of people. No matter how different he was and how strange his life turned out to be, it's still not cool to go laughing and making fun of someone and saying how glad you are that they are dead.

I think yours might be broken.