How the Web paid tribute to Michael Jackson!

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The news about Michael Jackson's untimely death shocked the world.  The blogosphere started flooding with news on various mediums including Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook.  In no time apparently everyone was talking about Michael Jackson’s demise on 25th June, 2009. There were even some instances that people were seeing rumored news about other celebrities death as well.  But rumors are rumors. So lets have a look how Web (internet) paid tribute to this world fame celebrity – Michael Jackson: Michael Jackson Facebook fan page has over 4,778,212 fan (at the time of writing) Michael Jackson Ultimate Playlist on Entertainment Weekly has got a collection of 16 best songs of Michael arranged in playlist. On many music destinations like Lala, Last.fm & iMeem etc. Michael Jackson is on #1 of their list for the week. View Michael Jackson: A Life in Pictures. Michael Jackson to be made into butter statue. The two best Michael Jackson videos have been viewed over 46,701,146 (The Thriller) and 31,638,839 (Beat it) on YouTube.  Below is the embed for Thriller for quick viewing. Top discussed topics and shared links on twitter (using Topsy) Michael Jackson dies : TMZ.com (4634 Tweets) – News Breaker Billie Tweets - a Twitter tribute to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" (1613 Tweets) – A cool interface showing song lyrics included in tweets. Michael Jackson: A Video Tribute at Mashable (415 Tweets) – A collection of Not even that, it is said that people who never heard of Michael Jackson, or may be just heard of him, have become his fan after his death. And don’t just look at the people paying tribute but also there are people taking benefit of Michael Jackson’s death by trying to spread the malwares. In fact, TechCrunch even noted that The Web Collapses Under The Weight Of Michael Jackson’s Death. And why not should the web get collapses when everyone everywhere is talking about Michael Jackson only whether it is Google, The New York Time,
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