No doubt many thousands of bloggers are writing about the death of Michael Jackson at the age of 50 last night.
It will be one of those where were you moments and I had just come in and saw the traffic on twitter which is going to be the medium for future breaking news for some time to come.
The news was broken by the LA entertainment and showbiz site TMZ closely followed by the LA Times but it wasn't until nearly three hours later that the news was officially confirmed.
This,in our 24 hour culture led to rumour and Mashable turn the spotlight on another entertainment site Perez Hilton which
upon learning of Michael Jackson’s hospital admission, he posted the following, shockingly offensive piece, alleging that Michael was “lying” or “making himself sick”. The post has now been updated on his site to temper this gross insensitivity, but we fear the damage to the blogging community has already been done.
Meanwhile twitter itself was undermined by the sheer amount of traffic with both Jackson's death and that earlier in the day of Farrah Fawcett.
Paid Content report that it
quickly got overloaded and returned results that were increasingly delayed—when it returned them at all. Later Thursday evening, Twitter said it had disabled the search field on users’ home pages entirely, although it did not explain why The troubles don’t bode well for Twitter’s prospects as a “real-time” search engine, which many believe is likely the service’s most valuable feature.
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