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TMZ gets served by Jackson, others struggle

Posted by bt | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 26-06-2009

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To follow up on BT’s recent Wacko Jacko post, it looks like news of the singer’s death was more than some sites could handle.  TMZ, who broke the story, was promptly DoSed and went offline.  Twitter had to disable a number of features to stay affloat and a number of additional news companies suffered under the traffic.  I almost wish he’d taken the internet down; that would have been a baller way to go.  Imagine the headlines,  “Wacko Jacko dies and takes the Internet with him”.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-news-slows-web-sites/

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