Rockin Robin - Michael Jackson Brings Down Twitter Real Time Search

It's got to be a first in the short history of Twitter, but the recently added and much criticised, by the purists, Twitter search facilty - has ground to a halt on the news of the death of Michael Jackson. Two hours on and it is now showing results from 2hrs ago ...hmm!
Whatever the cause, more likely to be server overload than any programming or database scalability problem, it's impossible to get the servers to return Michael Jackson search queries and hundreds of variations of his name dominate the trending topics and probably will for days.

This story is going to Tweet and Tweet for quite a while yet we suspect!

You heard it here at The System first folks!



Bye Bye Wacko!