Michael Jackson died after suffering what was described as a heart attack after acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication. The King of Pop's death overwhelmed Google and Twitter.
"Micheal Jackson's death broke Google for a time," company officials said. So many people around the world were typing the words "Michael Jackson" into the search engine simultaneously that Google's filters assumed someone was spamming the system.
Instead of news about his death, many users got an error message saying that: "We're sorry ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application."
Google officials said the problem was fixed within 35 minutes.
And just seconds after the story broke, messages or 'Tweets' about the singer on the micro-blogging site Twitter doubled. The news occupied nine out of ten most popular topics on Twitter and having 22.61 percent of all messages sent. The sudden increase also made a temporary shutdown to the site.
