blog.nielsen.com - 6/26/2009
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The breaking news of Michael Jackson’s sudden death dominated the web yesterday (and today), causing spikes in traffic and overwhelming social networks such as Twitter and Facebook with bursts of information and updates from millions of users. In comparison, discussions of Jackson far exceeded ...
googleblog.blogspot.com - 6/26/2009
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googleblog.blogspot.com —
At Google, we are moved by the life
and untimely passing of Michael Jackson. As word spread...
of his death, millions and millions of people from all over the world began searching for information about the pop icon. The following chart shows the ...
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Official Google Blog: Outpouring of searches for the ...
news.cnet.com - 6/26/2009
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 6/26/2009
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Traffic to news sites in North America saw
a massive spike as the Michael Jackson story unfolded....
Times are EST. Credit: Akamai. As the news of Michael Jackson's fate unfolded, sites around the Web felt the strain of spiking interest. On ...
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Michael Jackson-related traffic doubled Twitter's update ...
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Nielsen: In Blogosphere, Jackson's Death Trumped Obama's Inauguration, Swine Flu
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... Just how gaga did people go over news about Michael Jackson’s death? Nielsen tracked the number of mentions in the blogosphere. ...
Twitter/Tweets as Analytics Tool
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... provide link tracking data that can be valuable to publishers and marketers. But what about Twitter itself? There’s nothing truly novel in the thought of using Twitter as a kind of tracking tool for other media but I haven’t seen much discussion of that. What prompted this is the Nielsen post about Michael Jackson’s death: ...
Nielsen: Jackson Chatter Dominates Social Networks
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Not surprisingly, the death of Michael Jackson has dominated Internet chatter and overwhelmed social networking sites, according to preliminary data from Nielsen.
More than 16 percent of the Twitter updates posted to the micro-blogging site in the last 24 hours have been in relation to Jackson, who passed away Thursday at the age of 50. Less than two percent of Tweets have mentioned actress Farrah Fawcett, who also died Thursday, or the continuing turmoil in Iran, Nielsen said.
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