Here is a quick rundown of the final stats after today’s Michael Jackson Memorial service for the King of Pop. You were able to see users status updates that were entered on the CNN site and connected back to users facebook accounts. At one point in the morning users were posting Approx 6,000 status updates per minute.

There were a total of about 1 million users posting approximately 800,000 status updates on Facebook related to the live online broadcasts by CNN, E! Online, ABC and MTV of the Michael Jackson memorial service. Here is a breakdown by website:

CNN:
733,000 status updates
759,000 Facebook users viewing broadcast
6,000 updates/minute at the peak

E! Online:
9,000 status updates
87,000 Facebook users viewing broadcast

ABC:
48,000 status updates
97,000 Facebook users viewing broadcast

MTV:
5,000 status updates
21,000 Facebook users viewing broadcast

For context, there were 1.8 million Facebook status updates with the word “Obama” on Inauguration Day in the U.S. – an event that was broadly publicized for months leading up to it. I find it interesting that MTV the station that launched Michael Jackson into video stardom is at the bottom of the pile here; it’s because MTV has strayed too far from thier roots of music and have dived into the minutia of really bad reality programming.

Additionally…
• The Michael Jackson page www.facebook.com/michaeljackson has grown to have nearly 7 million fans, possibly making it the largest single following of any public figure on the Web and 1 million more than President Obama’s page on Facebook
• The free Michael Jackson glove virtual gift is the most popular in Facebook history with over 800,000 given away
• The Michael Jackson memorial GroupCard received signatures from Facebook users around the world

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