Poll: How Did You Find Out that Michael Jackson... - Louis Gray

twitter - Luca Filigheddu

Friendfeed, duh. - Daniel J. Pritchett

FF - Shandiz

I found out about Michael Jackson dying through VentureBeat while reading Google Reader feeds. - Louis Gray

twitter...only because I wasn't at my computer and had my twitter app open on my cell phone. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

FriendFeed - Valeria Maltoni

friendfeed - Scoble, Alex Scoble

From my sons, who may have heard of it on a WoW channel. - Fred Yankowski

Twitter - Roberto Bonini

email alert from a local news station on my phone. - Steve Lowe

FF - DAL

I was on a conference call yesterday with the team about to flip the switch and release the project that I've been working on for the last few months to an internal beta and someone blurts out "Michael Jackson is Dead!". I'm not sure how they found out... - Lindsay

Twitter - Graham Bunting

FF - imabonehead

FF - Panayotis Vryonis

Via twitter - Jacque from fftogo

Twitter. More specifically, this tweet -> http://twitter.com/kaitfol... - Hiro Asari

Call me old fashioned: I heard it on the radio! - Pablo Melchor

twitter, @breakingnews - George Tziralis

Twitter - Rich

twitter, friend posted it, not sure where he learned it from. I confirmed with Google News search, LA Times - xero

Mona's post, which I saw on fftogo as I was leaving work. - Penguin

radio! :) yes it still exists - Mario

Don't remember if it was Twitter or FF first, but it was probably a tweet either way. - Grey Drane

Good 'ol FriendFeed :) - Janice

The nice thing about breaking news on FF is that the number of posts required for everyone to get their OMGz out are decreased by an order of magnitude. On Twitter there's 5 tweets per person about MJ, on Friendfeed there's one post for every few people and then those pile up the comments. - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

FriendFeed! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

twitter - andy brudtkuhl

Twitter - Brett Kelly

Taken to hospital news on Twitter when only TMZ was reporting then followed newswires until death - Karen Swim

Radio on the drive home (who read it off TMZ) - Stuart Miniman

I hate to be a spoilsport but I've read Michael Jackson's death in my TwitterGadget. lols - jan geronimo

Coworker saw it on TMZ. - Jandy

Saw the first unverified rumors on Tumblr. Switched to twitter for more info and found a raging torrent of unsubstantiated tweets, most w/out links, announcing his death + a few linking to sources reporting the cardiac arrest and hospitalization. Glanced at FriendFeed and saw less rumor and more links to reports of what was so far known. Turned to Google News and found LA Times live blogging verified news. Kept hitting refresh until they updated with confirmation that Michael Jackson was dead. - Ben Greenberg

WHAT??? MJ's DEAD??? Just kidding, yeah Twitter. - Tac Anderson

Twitter - Kenton

twitter. - Evan Travers

NBC evening news - my next stop was FF - S of 2C

Twitter - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

Friendfeed - Martha

Twitter but via FF - Mike Bracco

@Mike - I think that counts as FF then, unless the tweet you saw had 0 likes and 0 comments. Don't discount the value of community filters! - Daniel J. Pritchett

Friendfeed but then I spent a couple of hours trying to establish whether it was true or not. - WoH: Minding her Botts

Friendfeed. Specifically, subscription to http://friendfeed.com/breakin... - Micah

A rare occurrence, my boss was on Twitter and noticed the tweets and mentioned it. So much for me being on top of real time media. I was working! :p - Josh Haley

FF - M F

FF - Vicarbott

Please do respond on the SocialToo Survey as well if you can get the chance. - Louis Gray

FF - Ian May

Twitter - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

My kid. A friend told her, maybe txt. - Jason Nunnelley

Breaking News Online on Friend Feed - RAPatton

my brother told me and I read it on friendfeed at just about the same moment - chrisofspades

Friendfeed - Alex Scrivener

My gf read it on the news and told me. - Will Higgins™

FF - W_B_K

Twitter - Mohamed J

Twitter - Ian D

Smoke signal - DJ Stevie Steve

Twitter - Jeremy Brooks

Twitter - but waited for it to be confirmed elsewhere - Keith - @tsudo

co worker said it. - Chieze Okoye

FF - comix aka martha

Would have been ff, but traveling and in location with limited connectivity, so CNN. - DJ Stevie Steve

I overheard someone who was on the phone and got told that Michael Jackson had died - Jorge Barba

friendfeed - zsafwan 

Survey as no option for Facebook. I learned it from someone's status update. - David Spencer

Friendfeed. :-) - Dan owns Comicsforge.com

checking in on friendfeed before going to bed last night - i'm on vacation and haven't seen a tv - also haven't been online too much either - Chris Heath

twitter - Mary DeSive

twitter - Bill Sanders

twitter...it wasn't even a search, just everyone i followed was talking about it - Anthony Farrior

Twitter. Then, FF. then switching between the two. - Araceli from Nambu

Friendfeed - Alejandro

friendfeed(tweets included) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Twitter piped through friendfeed. - mikepk

FriendFeed. - Chris Charabaruk

twitter - Kiran Patchigolla

My wife got a text from an SMS service provided by People Magazine. When I asked who sent it to her, she was almost too embarrassed to tell me. - Chip Ramsey

Good one Chip :D - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

Yahoo News when I was checking my email. - Dawn

Friendfeed - Brome

While in a meeting, I received a frantic call from co-worker who saw it on TMZ.com - felicious

I saw on igoogle that he had a heart attack, but it wasn't until later talking to my Mother I learned he had died. - Grant Bierman

Rumor on FF, confirmed by the DJ at a roller rink. - FFing Enigma

twitter - Corbett Barr

FriendFeed - Dean "Karnatos" Michaud

Tina: That's fantastic. Were you by chance playing paddle tag or shooting the duck at the time? - Chip Ramsey

Nope: I was trying to not fall on my arse at a roller derby practice. The last time I skated MJ was in his heyday, so it was weirdly symmetrical. - FFing Enigma

A quick hack to script http://wittman.org/project... and so far the stats here are: (Of 101): Friendfeed:39 | Twitter:27 | (?):35 - Micah

A tweet from Breaking News Online. - Derrick

Here are the ambiguous per the script: (?): I found out about Michael Jackson dying through VentureBeat while reading Google Reader feeds. - Louis Gray (?): From my sons, who may have heard of it on a WoW channel. - Fred Yankowski (?): CNN from my dad's Behold - Mohomed Abdullahi (?): email alert from a local news station on my phone. - Steve Lowe (?): I was on a conference call yesterday with the team about to flip the switch and release the project that I've been working on for the last few months to an internal beta and someone blurts out "Michael Jackson is Dead!". I'm not sure how they found out... - Lindsay HTABWAFF (?): Via twitter - Jacque Matalon via fftogo (?): Call me old fashioned: I heard it on the radio! - Pablo Melchor (?): radio! :) yes it still exists - Mario (?): Don't remember if it was Twitter or FF first, but it was probably a tweet either way. - Grey Drane (?): The nice thing about breaking news on FF is that the number of posts required for everyone to get their OMGz out are decreased by an order of magnitude. On Twitter there's 5 tweets per person about MJ, on Friendfeed there's one post for every few people and then those pile up the comments. - Daniel J. Pritchett via IM (?): Radio on the drive home (who read it off TMZ) - Stuart Miniman (?): I hate to be a spoilsport but I've read Michael Jackson's death in my TwitterGadget. lols - jan geronimo (?): Coworker saw it on TMZ. - Jandy (?): Saw the first unverified rumors on Tumblr. Switched to twitter for more info and found a raging torrent of unsubstantiated tweets, most w/out links, announcing his death + a few linking to sources reporting the cardiac arrest and hospitalization. Glanced at FriendFeed and saw less rumor and more links to reports of what was so far known. Turned to Google News and found LA Times live blogging verified news. Kept hitting refresh until they updated with confirmation that Michael Jackson was dead. - Ben Greenberg (?): my mother send me an sms this morning. -... more... - Micah

New York Times online - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Friendfeed. - Joey Gibson

Twitter - The original Kevin

Mainstream Media Online - SKAgnozzo

FriendFeed. - Parth Awasthi

DrudgeReport. Heard about him being rushed to the hospital via MSNBC news alert popup. Was working and wasn't checking twitter/ff at the time. - iTad from fftogo

Wife txt me about the sad news - Brady

A spam comment on my blog - Richard Reeve

Is it bad that I don't remember? Let me get back to you...Facebook, perhaps? I think it was before I was gonna go do some missions and quests and try to get Pyros. My brother sent me an SMS before that, but I didn't see it until after I knew. - MiniMage, enterRUPPted

FF - YoYo_P

Mother told me. - Burcu Dogan

twitter - Ekin Arabacıoğlu

Twitter - on June 25th - Twitter's trending topics told me that 3 celebrities died. They were 2 out of 3. I think Jeff Goldblum is still living.... - Mike Nencetti

FF! duh. - Frankie Warren

Hah... I saw it on Twitter... sure didn't hear it from CNN. :) - Sean

Radio, in the car. - Patricia

My wife told me after hearing about it in TV. - Glenn Trtanj

Twitter - Hutch Carpenter

twitter & friendfeed. - Oguz Serdar

PBS - Lisa zahara Hopkins

Twitter - Tyson Key

pillar of fire on the horizon. - Joe The Sausage

Twitter - Charley M

FriendFeed...probably via Twitter - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Twitter - Bora Zivkovic

FriendFeed, through @Mona - Mark Aitken

friendfeed - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど

ff - The Amber

Friends at CNN. - Mona Nomura

Friendfeed - Victor Ganata

Michael Jackson is Dead?!! First I've heard of this! ;-) - Jeff P. Henderson

Facebook, from Mona - Mike Nayyar

twitter, but immediately went to latimes.com to check - kelly

facebook - Alessandro

Veronica on FF - Stephen Mack

FF, plus checking all possible possibles sources. - diego morelli

I felt a disturbance in the force - Geoff Schultz {TF}

My friend Missy predicted 10 hours earlier, I found out while making frenchtoast and watching the News, they said Coma, I said bs - T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee

I woke up from a nap to it being on the news. In my groggy state, I saw his picture, and was trying to make sense of it. Finally it clicked, and then it was sort of like, "Huh?! He was only 40 something. That doesn't make any sense. " (He was actually 50) . - Nimabeckie

My oldest son called me and let me know.. - aerobroken

Twitter. - Bonnie Foster

Twitter - Aaron

Twitter... - Mark Harai

TV News - in Australia regular broadcasting stopped on two channels as they covered the event in LA for most of the day - another station played MJ all night til dawn. Of course once I was online, I could see that even twitter was mourning. - Chris Loft

A friend IMed me. - Lu Liu

FF. - Lix

XM radio, on the way to my new place. - David Cook from fftogo

Friend listening to car radio. He was pulling his car into the garage. Got out of the car and said MJ and Farrah just died. - David Damore

Was delivering coffee to an espresso stand, the barista told me that she heard about 30 min before, she had 4 friends txt it to her. - Christian Burns

Alix texted it to me. - Shawn Whitmire

Local news report on TV - Mol, FF Music Lover

Ya'll. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Seesmic Desktop --> Facebook --> from Mona :) I later left to run an errand and listened to "Beat It" playing on the car radio during a tribute. I felt it was very fitting I found out the news from a combination of social media but actually sort of accepted it as true by hearing it on the radio - as opposed to something like YouTube. It just goes to show how long he's been around and how much has changed since The Jackson 5 days. The word revolutionary comes to mind. - Melissa Davis

(Of 169): friendfeed:56 | twitter:45 | (?):69 - Micah

Twitter, just cuz that was the tab I had visible. Wait...when did I find out he was in the hospital, or when did I find out he was actually dead? Two diff questions. - Rah-PM 2012

Associated Press's iPhone app pushed breaking news to my phone. So "other". - Rob H.

FriendFeed (there were 57 votes for FriendFeed when I voted) - Miss Elle

Text. (I was outside and away from a computer. Subsequently informed everyone at the call center with which I do business, since I'm pretty sure they don't have Internet access there.) - Sue Radd

Google News - Nikhil Dandekar

Duh..Twitter - Saad Kamal

on friendfeed... - K.D.

Email from a friend in the US so I saw it morning my time in Europe - Krishna De

Friendfeed, but had to go to LA Times and CNN to believe it. - TobiasVerhoog.com

Do you mean "how did you find out that he'd died?" or "how did you find out that some people were saying he'd died?". The answer to the first is "on the BBC". The second is "FriendFeed" - although what I saw on FF was a feed through of Twitter. - Ian Betteridge

Heard that MJ fell ill on Japanese TV. Saw that he died on FriendFeed. Checked CNN et al, and eventually they confirmed it. - Rick Cogley

Twitter, when MJ's death was a rumour or unconfirmed - Thierry R. Andriamirado

CELEB text alert from 4info - Tim Connors

office chatter - Thom Kennon

The people behind me at the Red Sox game were talking about it. - Leslie Carbone

Twitter retweet of TMZ article - Manuel Mas

What is this TMZ that you speak of. ;-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Via Facebook. I was surprised I learned about it there... - Samuel Driessen

The News. I walked into my Boss's office and he had it on TV. I'd been in meetings all day at that point and hadn't had access to any of my connected devices. - Jason Toney

When my wife told me. Same way I found out he had gone to hospital. I continued to not care. - Eoghann Irving

Facebook. Tim Cuprisin posted the TMZ scoop: http://bit.ly/MppYm - Mark Czerniec

friendfeed.... - Ahmet Alp Balkan

Plurk. Funny thing was that on FF I saw a slew of MJ posts paying tribute, but didn't understand why everyone on FF was so MJ crazy. A friend on Plurk directly commented that he and Farrah had died. - Criz

I found out Michael Jackson had been hospitalized on Twitter. then rumors started that me may be / might not be dead, so I tried searching the web for confirmation and found nothing. Soon, there were links on Twitter to the CBS UStream broadcast which confirmed his death for me. - jbrotherlove

I told about it in this post: http://friendfeed.com/kmeelah... - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Twitter. - Curt Mercadante

Local news of his cardia arrest. Twitter of his death. And all within minutes of it hitting the air. - Graham English

f2f - j1m

my son verbally told me about mj's death after he found out on twitter - mike "glemak" dunn

Twitter - Svartling

gmail status message of a coworker - ta√i

FF first. Confirmed through multiple traditional sources. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

facebook...i saw "RIP Jacko" - constance taft

can i change my vote?... - Thom Kennon

Jason Calacanis on Twitter. - timedalkat

I'm currently in the hospital and i suddenly woke up in the middle of the night at 3:30 AM and couldn't fall a sleep again, so i turned on my cell phone and in the magic of that quite hospital night i found out from Facebook's statuses of my friends that he's dead. It was a very sad and strange feeling. - Tibor Holoda

Got a txt msg just after 2p (MJ Cardiac Arrest 911) - Turned to my friend and said what the msg said and "He is goinna die" due to Ed McMahon dying earlier this week and that whole 'dying in 3s" thing. I didn't know about Farrah Fawcett until around 5pm. I was away from my computer al day and don't have a 'smartphone.' - RAD Moose

Saw it in a Swedish tabloid (?) in a Coöp Nara (grocery) in Stockholm. It was in Swedish, but Michael Jackson 1958-2009 was clear enough. - Ruchira S. Datta

twitter - Jeffrey Marsh

From a sports radio show - Yiorgos Adamopoulos

overheard at Whole Foods. Mistrusted, unable to hear on radio (at 6:30 EST); confirmed at 7:10 via the New York Times who had just reported it. - Stephanie•CogSciLibrarian

MJ died? - Keith - @tsudo

haha - haven't you heard! - Mark Harai from email

Twitter/FriendFeed. Way before the media. - Amit Morson

Facebook - Scott Gould

Facebook - Sai

A tweet from Mona on FriendFeed. - Kol Tregaskes

my friendfeed friends told me - Mike Chelen

Michael who? - Nick B.

From a friend....trur word-of-mouth. I was in the Sierras at the Northern California Dance Collective with no internet or TV access. - Mitchell Tsai

friendfeed - Bren