Tech | Posted on Jun 26, 2009 at 11:40pm IST

'Jackson' puts web world into a frenzy

New Delhi: As fans mourn the passing of Michael Jackson, the web is bubbling with activity. His official website may be shut down with comments from Sony, but other ways of keeping his memory alive have popped up online.

You tube has an official Michael Jackson channel with over 2 million hits on his video of thriller. His have quickly become the top 15 selling albums on amazon.com, and hundreds of memorabilia has been added to Ebay since his death.

But that's not all. According to web traffic cracker - Alexa, 7 of the 10 most popular sites right now are about the king of pop.

Even social networks are being bombarded - Twitter had to disable search when tweets about MJ were up to 5000 a minute.

And status updates on facebook tripled the average when the news broke. It seems everyone has something to say.

The king of pop will surely be missed, but his memory will remain alive forever on the web.

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