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...news of Michael Jackson's death spread around the world on June 25, the social-networking site Twitter came to a virtual standstill, flooded with visitors tweeting the news. Within moments of the first breaking news reports - indicating that Jackson had suffered cardiac arrest and had been rushed via ambulance to a Los Angeles hospital - both #michaeljackson and cardiac arrest emerged as two of the network's highest-rated "trending topics." As TIME's Michael Scherer notes, nearly three times as many tweets were posted about Michael Jackson on Thursday than about either Iran or swine flu. (See TIME...
...celebrity Twitter feeds...
...original story stated that Rep. Hoekstra had not posted on Twitter since his June 17 tweet about Iran. In fact, as of posting time, he had posted one additional time...
...banal. "You can't really explain why it's funny, but it is," he says. Huh has not yet heard from Hoekstra, but he expects the congressman to be overwhelmed by satirical posts next time he logs online. "I'm pretty sure when he finally checks his Twitter account, he's going to find tens of thousands of these," Huh says...
Hoekstra has had his problems with Twitter before: last February, he tweeted his whereabouts while touching down into Baghdad on a trip that was supposed to be kept secret for security reasons. His office did not return a request for comment, but the congressman may be taking some time to rethink his new media strategy since the June 17 post. It took him two days to tweet again...