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As the world tunes into the Michael Jackson memorial, Redmond-based msnbc.com is there with live online video. But the coverage has a bit of a twist too. For the first time on a major news event, msnbc.com has integrated a live Twitter stream. As Mariah Carey sang "I'll be There," the Twitter messages were moving so fast that one could barely keep up.
"WOW... this is so sad. Watching the Michael Jackson memorial. What a wonderful tribute to such an influential man!!!!!," wrote one Twitter user.
"MJ's memorial is like the most tweeted n watched thing since Obama Day & The Finals," wrote another.
Powered by Tinker, the service allows users to post a Twitter message directly in the player.
Meanwhile, CNN and ABC News are doing something similar, but with messages from Facebook.
UPDATE: VentureBeat notes that CNN.com's Facebook widget was getting 6,000 status updates every minute -- more than during President Barack Obama's inauguration. I have an email into msnbc.com to see how many Twitter updates they were receiving.
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