the nyt on the day jackson died

12/18/2009 12:48:33 AM
An amazing piece of data visualization showing the traffic to the website of the New York Times on the day Michael Jackson died. Look for the eruption in traffic from 5.20pm onwards when TMZ first broke the news.

The New York Times site traffic, US, June 25, 2009 from Nick Bilton on Vimeo.



Posted by Ed Cotton
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