carino99 | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 27 2009 | news, internet, michael jackson
How many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it's just one -- if that one is Michael Jackson. Twitter crashed as users saw multiple "fail whales" -- the illustrations the site uses as error messages -- user FoieGrasie posting, "Irony: The protesters in Iran using Twitter as com are unable to get online because of all the posts of 'Michael Jackson RIP.' Well done." Mashable.com reported that tributes to, and remarks upon, Michael Jackson's death were responsible for 30 percent of tweets. - CNN.com
- carino99 | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 28 2009 | obama, government, free speech, web, internet
"A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government," Cass Sunstein wrote. "Democratic efforts to reduce the resulting problems ought not be rejected in freedom's name." - WORLD NET DAILY
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