Sunday, 5th February 2012

Michael Jackson Dies: 22% Of Twitter Tweets Leave Tribute For The Legend

Michael Jackson twitter

Death of super star Michael Jackson seems to leave a global impact and the online social community isn’t free from it too. The impact being reflected by social media has made it more easy to understand how exactly the death of a global personality can impact our planet. Mourning has now become public with people creating threads in various forums and tweeting about the sad demise after short intervals.

As per the twitter tracking tool Twist around 22% of twitter tweets contain the name Michael Jackson which is actually an estimate. It is hard to track twitter and hard to track the real collection of sorrow being reflected by online communities. This is just a hint.

Various analyzers in coming weeks will surely analyze the impact left by social media on such international level news as this is something which is totally new for the Internet. We will keep you updated.

May his soul rest in peace.

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