When Steve Irwin, the famous crocodile hunter, was killed by a sting ray, 5.5% of the posts on that day in the blogosphere (September 05, 2006) mentioned his name. Yesterday, mentions of ‘Michael Jackson’ topped out around 3%. Things are heading north from there today – currently around 8% – but note that the more immediate statistics come with a higher margin of error due to the lower sample size.
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Of course, in the time since Irwin's death, we've seen the rise of Twitter. It's hard to compare apples to apples on this one, as no one was on Twitter in 2006 but last night saw thousands of tweets per minute, talking about Michael Jackson's death.
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I shall never be amazed at the statistics available to us in this world ever again. I mean, we actually can tabulate how many posts there are of someone??
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