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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Teh Internets / International America's Next Top Twitter

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:01 PM

The Iran uprising vs. Michael Jackson?

Jackson wins:

"My Twitter search script sees roughly 15 percent of all posts on Twitter mentioning Michael Jackson. Never saw Iran or swine flu reach over 5 percent," observed Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at Harvard's Beckman Center for Internet & Society. He "tweeted" his report.

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Twitter just had to shut down the search functionality because it was causing the whole software to freeze.

Posted by Womyn2me on June 25, 2009 at 8:27 PM

did you account for "micheal" misspellings?

Posted by skye on June 25, 2009 at 9:48 PM

Wow.

Posted by kim in portland

on June 25, 2009 at 10:29 PM

You want to generate a bunch of wrathful replies on Facebook or Twitter? Comment that Michael Jackson really died 20 years ago -- then sit back and wait for the shitstorm.

Posted by anyway on June 25, 2009 at 10:54 PM

did you all think his life was no longer news?

question for the nerds - wonder if this name polls better than any other living or dead person in the last 30 years? bet it does

I am sad by any death, but for Michael Jackson only for the loss of talent and the ignominy of his ending chapters

Posted by Ace on June 25, 2009 at 10:58 PM

The BERKman Center!

Posted by Ladyson on June 26, 2009 at 6:21 AM

Twitter was created in America and is still mostly an American thing.

Jackson was an American Icon.

Many Americans probably couldn't locate Iran on a map.

In sum, I don't find it surprising...

Posted by Urgutha Forka on June 26, 2009 at 9:43 AM