Friday, June 26, 2009

The King of Pop, idol to many, gone...

Michael Jackson. age 50. passed away on the 25th of June 2009. he left so unexpectedly, giving most of his fans, if not all, a serious shock, including me. and to commemorate him, most radio stations have been playing his songs throughout the day.'In the hours following Jackson's death, his record sales increased dramatically.' a line from Wikipedia.

News of Jackson's death spread quickly online, causing many websites to experience technical difficulties under the unanticipated swell of users. Google announced technical difficulties after a sudden swell in searches for "Michael Jackson" led the company to believe it was under attack from hackers, while social networking site Twitter reported a crash after record numbers of users used the site to spread the news of Jackson's death. Wikipedia, itself had temporarily experienced technical difficulties and crashed at 3:15 PDT reportedly due to excessive edits and user overload. Many news organizations were generally very cautious about the initial reports of his death.

He was indeed very well known for what that had been stated above to happen. He had over 50 concerts to perform and billions of fans waiting for him, only to find out about this saddening news. What he has done shall be recorded in history, and he shall be remembered and cherished forever. The one and only King of Pop.

The success he has worked for and deeds he has done for the world can be read at the wiki (obviously) if anyone is interested. It really hasn't hit me yet though..... that Michael passed away....

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