Social Media Spreads Michael Jackson Story Like Wildfire
by Chris on Jun.26, 2009, under general
Interesting post on SEOMOZ on how the story of Michael Jackson passing spread online over time.
According to the article over the course of 3 hrs the story went from:
- Entertainment Niche Site
- Larger Entertainment Site
- Wikipedia
- CNN Twitter
- first Bit.ly link (others tweeting)
- Story hits Digg front page
- massive RTing
- MSNBC confirms
- CNN confirms
- Story on Google News
The story really took fire on social media, with the MSM and Google News following later. I don’t think a 3 hr delay is too bad on Google News’ part, but it is interesting to see how quickly stories like this can spread now.
