Jackson News Claims Many Web Victims

Web traffic caused by the news of Michael Jackson’s death Thursday caused a flurry of crashes and slowdowns across the Internet.

According to The New York TimesMedia Decoder Blog, Akamai said traffic to news sites hit 4.2 million visitors per minute during the biggest spike at around 6 p.m. ET, after never topping the 3 million mark during the rest of the day.

As for Twitter, Biz Stone, one of its founders, told The New York TimesBits blog in an e-mail, “We saw more than double the normal tweets per second the moment the news broke—the biggest increase since the U.S.

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