Comments on: MJ's Death Makes Web Traffic Spike, But No Internet Meltdown

By: Should Web Page Speed Influence Google PageRank?

Should Web Page Speed Influence Google PageRank? — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:30:54 +0000

[...] Hours after the news of Michael Jackson’s death spread on the web, many news sites became inaccessible and suffered slowdowns. Those sites didn’t crash but instead were hampered because they were [...]

By: Remembering 9/11 — A Time Before Social Networks – GigaOM

Remembering 9/11 — A Time Before Social Networks – GigaOM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:03:54 +0000

[...] that country’s election. But we’ve also seen how major news events, most notably the death of Michael Jackson in June, can significantly slow down and disrupt the [...]

By: Michael Jackson Memorial Nearly Shuts Down Internet | Nerdlike.com

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:03:00 +0000

[...] per minute as of 1 pm EST and an average of more than 3.3 million visitors per minute overall. That is second only to the 4,247,971 global visitors per minute who visited news sites on June 25th when the news of [...]

By: King of Pop Proves to Be King of Traffic: MJ’s Online Memorial Pushes Internet’s Limits

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:58:45 +0000

By: King of Pop Proves to be King of Traffic: MJ’s Online Memorial Pushes Internet’s Limits

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:45:11 +0000

By: Preparing for News About You on the Web

Preparing for News About You on the Web — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:01:55 +0000

[...] I’m not famous, so I doubt that any news about me would cause a spike in internet traffic, or get me invited to appear on The Colbert Report. But recent events made me realize that I still [...]

By: Links of the Week 6/29-7/4 » jeffpesek.com

Links of the Week 6/29-7/4 » jeffpesek.com — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:46:48 +0000

[...] what happens to the web when a celebrity dies? [...]

By: MJ Fans Flock to eBay for Memorabilia

MJ Fans Flock to eBay for Memorabilia — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:02:47 +0000

[...] Martinez | Thursday, July 2, 2009 | 5:02 PM PT | 0 comments Millions of people logged onto the web when the news of Michael Jackson’s sudden death broke last week, and they’re continuing [...]

By: Bret Swanson - Maximum Entropy » Blog Archive » Jackson’s traffic spike

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:44:36 +0000

[...] Malik survey’s the Net traffic spike after Michael Jackson’s death: Around 6:30 p.m. EST, Akamai’s Net [...]

By: Vikram Singh

Vikram Singh — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:32:19 +0000

Yes it does. And I love what WP has done with the latest releases.

By: Ankur Moulik

Ankur Moulik — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:30:02 +0000

While i was doing some work on Facebook.
I checked in on Twitter.
Everyone posted tweets about MJ’s death.
I felt shocked and really felt sad.
But something went wrong with my Twitter profile yesterday.
Now it’s ok.

By: Michael Jackson Traffic = Infrastructure Test

Michael Jackson Traffic = Infrastructure Test — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:12:57 +0000

[...] always the usual suspects had to cut down on features just to stay alive, but overall Gigom is reporting that most web services went without a [...]

By: Reuben

Reuben — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:59:16 +0000

Om – This post is right to put in context yesterday’s failures, but it’s sloppy in two places. First, it’s not ironic that this occurred during your infrastructure discussion. Perhaps it’s serendipitous. Also – The timescale uses EDT, EST and times without a noted offset This makes it hard to follow.

By: Michael Jackson’s Death Strains Web Infrastructure

Michael Jackson’s Death Strains Web Infrastructure — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:49:47 +0000

[...] conference, put some numbers and graphs culled from Keynote Systems and Akamai together for an article he wrote for Gigaom this morning about the spike in traffic so massive that it almost shut down [...]

By: Joshua Davis

Joshua Davis — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:00:50 +0000

Well Google did break. This morning I was trying to run a web search on something completely unrelated and got a Google error basically indicated they thought they were under DOS attack, and it wouldn’t let me search without entering a capthca which didn’t work on my crappy Nokia E51 phone.

By: Gadget Sleuth

Gadget Sleuth — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:52:44 +0000

It returned to normal once people got over the shock, shrugged and went “Oh well, MJ was pretty much old news by now anyway”.