Twitter, TMZ, and others go down!

Hi friends and readers from all over the world. Because of the death of Michael Jackson, several news and entertainment sites went down because of an overload of site visitors. I find this incredible!

Twitter and TMZ shut down several times during the day. Perez Hilton went down as well. A global Internet analysts said that at its peak, roughly 15 per cent of all posts on Twitter mentioned Michael Jackson, while Iran’s disputed presidential elections or the swine flu pandemic never reached over 5 per cent.

Google said that there had been a “volcanic” surge in interest in Michael Jackson, with most of the top 100 searches on the site related to the singer. All Facebook, which tracks Facebook usage, reported that Jackson's page appears to be attracting around 20 fans a second, predicting that it could fast become one of the top pages in all of Facebook.

The picture to the left is from our J. LaMore Facebook page which is kept updated directly from our blog every thirty minutes.

Since the news aggregation site Drudge Report broke news of President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky almost a decade ago, blogs and social media sites have increasingly shown their power in reporting major news stories. Early yesterday afternoon , the gossip website, TMZ.com, broke the story of Michael Jackson’s death.

Itunes has reported that Jackson's "Thriller" instantly climbed to number one downloaded album. Amazing!

I'll keep you posted with any further updates.

Jennifer