The Michael Jackson Memorial, yesterday, drew crowds on television and also increased mobile traffic.
Between 10am and noon PDT, Verizon Wireless voice calls in the vicinity of the Staples
Center in Los Angeles, the location of the Michael Jackson memorial, were up 10
percent greater than the same time on Monday. Text message and mobile web rates
were increased 86 percent.
Facebook reported 733,000 status updates. Michael Jackson's fan page on Facebook grew to 7,658,434 fans after his death, beating President Barack Obama by over one million.
The free Jackson virtual silver-sequined glove gift is Facebook's most popular gift which sold-out at one million gloves.
There are more than 30 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices. People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are almost 50% more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.