Michael Jackson Twitter charts show insane traffic spike
A blogger from Sysomos, which makes analysis tools for social media, has posted a set of infographics created by crawling Twitter during yesterday’s unfolding drama around the late pop star Michael Jackson. Some of the charts show demographic distributions that may suprise you. One shows the craziest traffic spike ever — the seismic rumble that Twitterers felt yesterday.
The chart above shows that most people tweeting about Jackson were under 35 years old, well below the… Continue Reading
Internet lets bad spellers grieve for “Micheal Jackson”
One of the pleasures of Internet culture none of the eggheads talk about at conferences is that the Internet lets you be dumb.
This afternoon, the trending topics list on Twitter is a rotating set of call-outs to the late King of Pop. At first it was shocking to see how many people are capable of operating Twitter, but not spelling “Michael” correctly. Then I realized this is part of why we like Internet technology. Online businesses,… Continue Reading