{"id":2741,"date":"2009-06-29T07:56:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T23:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2016-02-08T09:50:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T01:50:40","slug":"michael-jackson-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/computers\/michael-jackson-in-numbers-2741","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson in numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first learned of Michael Jackson's death on Twitter. That was before the flood of tweets about Michael almost brought down the micro-blogging site.<\/p>\n<p>To give you an idea of the traffic volume, here's a graph from Twist showing that at its peak, around 22% of all posts on Twitter were about Jackson.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson2.gif\" alt=\"michael-jackson2\" title=\"michael-jackson2\" width=\"518\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/MichaelJackson\/story?id=7937928&page=1\">ABC News<\/a> article has more on the slowdowns and crashes caused by Web users wanting to learn more about Michael (searching for lyrics was very popular on Google) or pay respects.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, my thoughts on Jackson &mdash; a tragic end to a tragic life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/computers\/michael-jackson-in-numbers-2741#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jackson's death caused a surge of Internet traffic, bringing down some services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[125,131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}