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The Empathic Civilisation
How Michael Jackson’s death shut down Twitter

The internet came alive like never before as people around the world logged on to follow the stunning news of Michael Jackson’s death.
The story created such a surge in online traffic that Google returned an ‘error message’ for searches of the singer’s name as it assumed it was under attack.
And just seconds after the story broke on the American entertainment website TMZ.com, messages or ‘Tweets’ about the singer on the micro-blogging site Twitter doubled, leading to a temporary shutdown of the site.
Streams vs. pages.

Things are changing. That’s for sure. And in the case of internet we are now facing a relatively new trend on how the content is displayed for us. The information is being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of Web pages. Even if it is only in a early stage, the change is palpable. This article writted by Erick Schonfeld takes a look on this new reality.
The complete article on www.techcrunch.com