Who needs news when there’s facebook/twitter statuses?
If you haven’t heard by now that Michael Jackson died, you’ve gotta be making some kind of effort to avoid human interaction. But think for a second about how you found out that he died. A stat was released that 15% of all twitter statuses yesterday evening were dedicated to Michael Jackson. If you have a facebook account, chances are you saw that everyone and their mother used their status feature to acknowledge MJ’s passing. I even saw statuses of people who are not currently in the US saying “thanks to so-and-so’s status, I don’t still think MJ is alive”. Certainly the younger population tends to check their facebook/twitter accounts more frequently than say a CNN.com. Who knew Twitter and Facebook could out-info (simply by volume) major news sources?
UPDATE:
I love Paul McCartney. MSNBC quoted him speaking about MJ: “A massively talented boy-man.”
