By Tom DunlapThe Twitterverse is going bonkers over the Michael Jackson funeral in L.A. The micro-blogging phenom has seen a massive burst of tweets over the memorial service.
You have to wonder if today's Web activity will be the same as the day he died, when Twitter took a direct hit as people went online when the news of his death broke, and then they kept chattering about it for days. I heard from several people who said that Twitter was too jammed up to tweet the day the music died.
As we monitor how Twitter and other sites handle the pressure, here's a sample of today's tweets:
NancyODell: Going into Jackson Memorial service. Police everywhere. airport type security.
NancyODell: http://twitpic.com/9lses - Billy and I talking about the weird emotions u feel here at the service...going inside now
TheTashaSparks: I woulda been tight if I was michael jackson yo! He died 2 weeks before he woulda came into madd money and his concerts
edhenderson: will stand and applaud if they rig up Michael Jackson ala Weekend At Bernies to sit up during the Memorial Concert
newspathweb: Coming Up at 1pm ET ... Katie Couric anchors a CBS News Special Report on the Michael Jackson Memorial at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
rturner229: CBS showcasing Katie Couric interviews with Michael Jackson fans. Isn't this kind of thing what put Katie further in the cellar?
For a more serious look at Jackson and his troubled life, the site I edit,
SemanticWeb.com, compiled a short list of how some leading semantic web applications -- Bing, Twine, Wolfram Alpha, Yahoo SearchMonkey, Google Rich Snippets, etc. -- are serving up the latest information on the fallen entertainer.
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