Jackson death was twittered, texted and Facebooked June 27, 2009
NEW YORK - “Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Jackson has just died,” the woman called out breathlessly upon boarding a Manhattan bus, moments after the news had broken. Not a word was spoken in response. But nearly every passenger reached for a BlackBerry, a cell phone, whatever device was at hand.
“People are already texting about it, putting it up on Facebook, remembering his greatest moments,” noted Delmar Dualeh, sitting in the back. At 17, he confessed, the news didn’t really move him emotionally. He was too young to recall the 50-year-old entertainer in his prime. But he was fully engaged in the cultural moment. He hurried the conversation along so he could get back to texting.
In Iran, people speak of a Twitter uprising. Was this the first major Twitter celebrity death? Because it wasn’t just HOW lots of people first learned of Jackson’s demise, but what they did once they found out.
“Once you knew the news, there wasn’t so much more to know , the rest is all comment,” said media critic Jeff Jarvis. So, he said, maybe you’d go to your friends instead of the news: “You might care more what your friends say than some analyst.”
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