Celebrity wave of deaths on the Internet after the death of Jackson
Has been the worst week in history, at least for those who believe everything they read on the net: after Michael Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Natalie Portman and George Clooney, among others, allegedly left this world.
Fortunately, neither Goldblum or Portman or Clooney died, but all patients were dead at several sites and social networks of the Internet, where news of the alleged deaths of celebrities have been returning in recent days.
The speed with which information moves in the network becomes increasingly difficult to check and curb false and sometimes even the most seasoned readers have trouble distinguishing the real story of Bulo.
Ultimately, the U.S. comedian Ed McMahon, actress Farrah Fawcett and the king of pop Michael Jackson died in the course of just two days, so many thought that another celebrity death came as far as possible.
Many of the false rumors of recent days were spread across the page fakeawish.com, owned by Rich Hoover, where readers can enter names of famous five templates with false information, on almost all deaths.
'TUITEOS' False
Although users of fakeawish.com know that they are inventions, the alleged death spread like wildfire on Facebook or Twitter, where many were genuine.
So, Natalie Portman allegedly died at himself from a cliff in New Zealand, where he disappeared on actor Jeff Goldblum.
According to another of the lies that have circulated these days, the plane in which he was traveling disappeared over George Clooney in a state of Colorado and his representative had to answe
r dozens of calls from alarmed friends of the actor for his possible death.
Britney Spears also left us this week as various messages posted on Twitter, where representatives of the singer on Sunday issued a denial of less than 140 characters, the maximum allowed by the micro-blogging site.
Another celebrity who has recently passed away at many Internet sites is Harrison Ford, whose yacht was hit by lightning, according to these versions, while sailing in a storm in Saint Tropez.
NOT SAVING JOBS
The news of the death of the Eighties idol Rick Astley circulated by iReport.com, a news site owned by CNN where are the users who posted the content.
iReport.com rose to fame a few months after he published that Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple, had suffered a heart attack. Jobs was perfect, but the news caused a drop in company stock that day.
Authors of Bulo on the death of Astley used a false statement with a logo in the AP news agency by ensuring that the singer's body had been found dead in a Berlin hotel.
INCREASING POPULARITY
Yesterday, Tuesday, Rick Astley was one of the most "twitter" and the video of his song "Never gonna give you up now accumulated 18 million views on YouTube, which shows that a death, even if false, is never bad to increase popularity.
Jeff Goldblum, for his part, received a big media attention after being presumed dead until oy appeared on the agenda of U.S. comedian Stephen Colbert, who joked still considered died while in the study.
Fakeawish.com also is benefiting from both rumor funeral: the page is usually a few thousand hits a day, but weekend traffic was up half a million.
Fortunately, neither Goldblum or Portman or Clooney died, but all patients were dead at several sites and social networks of the Internet, where news of the alleged deaths of celebrities have been returning in recent days.
The speed with which information moves in the network becomes increasingly difficult to check and curb false and sometimes even the most seasoned readers have trouble distinguishing the real story of Bulo.
Ultimately, the U.S. comedian Ed McMahon, actress Farrah Fawcett and the king of pop Michael Jackson died in the course of just two days, so many thought that another celebrity death came as far as possible.
Many of the false rumors of recent days were spread across the page fakeawish.com, owned by Rich Hoover, where readers can enter names of famous five templates with false information, on almost all deaths.
'TUITEOS' False
Although users of fakeawish.com know that they are inventions, the alleged death spread like wildfire on Facebook or Twitter, where many were genuine.
So, Natalie Portman allegedly died at himself from a cliff in New Zealand, where he disappeared on actor Jeff Goldblum.
According to another of the lies that have circulated these days, the plane in which he was traveling disappeared over George Clooney in a state of Colorado and his representative had to answe
Britney Spears also left us this week as various messages posted on Twitter, where representatives of the singer on Sunday issued a denial of less than 140 characters, the maximum allowed by the micro-blogging site.
Another celebrity who has recently passed away at many Internet sites is Harrison Ford, whose yacht was hit by lightning, according to these versions, while sailing in a storm in Saint Tropez.
NOT SAVING JOBS
The news of the death of the Eighties idol Rick Astley circulated by iReport.com, a news site owned by CNN where are the users who posted the content.
iReport.com rose to fame a few months after he published that Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple, had suffered a heart attack. Jobs was perfect, but the news caused a drop in company stock that day.
Authors of Bulo on the death of Astley used a false statement with a logo in the AP news agency by ensuring that the singer's body had been found dead in a Berlin hotel.
INCREASING POPULARITY
Yesterday, Tuesday, Rick Astley was one of the most "twitter" and the video of his song "Never gonna give you up now accumulated 18 million views on YouTube, which shows that a death, even if false, is never bad to increase popularity.
Jeff Goldblum, for his part, received a big media attention after being presumed dead until oy appeared on the agenda of U.S. comedian Stephen Colbert, who joked still considered died while in the study.
Fakeawish.com also is benefiting from both rumor funeral: the page is usually a few thousand hits a day, but weekend traffic was up half a million.
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