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The First Twitter Funeral?

Tom Dunlap
SemanticWeb.com Contributor

Datamation Blog

The 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.

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