King of Pop Rules Facebook

NEW YORK The King of Pop is more popular than the leader of the free world, at least on Facebook.

During Tuesday’s memorial service for fallen music icon Michael Jackson, when numerous news, music and entertainment events streamed the event live, Facebook users were averaging 6,000 status updates per minute. That’s roughly 2,000 more updates per minute than occurred during the inauguration ceremony for President Obama last January.

Just like the inauguration, Facebook users could comment during the Jackson funeral while streaming it live on CNN.com.

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