✖ Via Guardian: “How Michael Jackson’s death captured Twitter’s trends (updated)” by Charles Arthur, Friday 26 June 2009.

Twitscoop, which watches trends in hashtags on that messaging service you’ve all heard about, has a video of how the realisation that something was seriously wrong with Michael Jackson (though many, for unknown reasons, spelt it “Micheal”). […] Still, perhaps it shows the arc of technology, thus: “Where were you when you heard about Kennedy being shot?” (Media: radio, TV)… “Where were you when you heard about Princess Di?” (Media: radio, TV, text message, mobile phone call)… “Which messaging service did you hear about Michael Jackson’s death on?” (Facebook, Twitter, Twitscoop…)…”



• Jun 26, 2009 link notes tagged: Twitter  trends  news  technology  communication  video  visualization  media  evolution 

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